The mtDNA rns gene landscape in the Ophiostomatales and other fungal taxa: Twintrons, introns, and intron-encoded proteins

Fungal Genetics and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue , 2013, Pages 71-83

  Hafez, Mohamed ^a,c   Majer, Anna ^a   Sethuraman, Jyothi ^a   Rudski, Shelly M ^a   Michel, François ^b   Hausner, Georg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c Universite de Montreal   (Canada)

Author keywords

Group I and II introns; Homing endonucleases; MtDNA; Reverse transcriptase; RRNA

Indexed keywords

ENDONUCLEASE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; HOMING ENDONUCLEASE; INTRON ENCODED PROTEIN; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RIBOZYME; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CERATOCYSTIOPSIS; FUNGAL GENE; GROSMANNIA; INTRON; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPHIOSTOMA; OPHIOSTOMATALES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TAXON; TWINTRON; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE ORDER; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; OPHIOSTOMATALES; PHYLOGENY; POSITION-SPECIFIC SCORING MATRICES;

CERATOCYSTIOPSIS; FUNGI; OPHIOSTOMA; OPHIOSTOMATALES;

EID: 84875588195     PISSN: 10871845     EISSN: 10960937     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fgb.2013.01.005     Document Type: Article

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