Organelle genome complexity scales positively with organism size in volvocine green algae

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 793-797

  Smith, David Roy ^a   Hamaji, Takashi ^b   Olson, Bradley J S C ^c   Durand, Pierre M ^d   Ferris, Patrick ^e   Michod, Richard E ^e   Featherston, Jonathan ^d   Nozaki, Hisayoshi ^f   Keeling, Patrick J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chlamydomonas; chloroplast; Gonium; mitochondrion; Pleodorina; Volvox

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PLASTID DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHLAMYDOMONADALES; DNA CONTENT; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GREEN ALGA; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASTID GENOME;

CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENOME, PLANT; GENOME, PLASTID; MITOCHONDRIA; MODELS, GENETIC; PLASTIDS; VOLVOCIDA;

ALGAE; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLOROPHYTA; GONIUM; PLEODORINA; PROTISTA; VOLVOX;

EID: 84875632485     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/mst002     Document Type: Article

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