Nannochloropsis plastid and mitochondrial phylogenomes reveal organelle diversification mechanism and intragenus phylotyping strategy in microalgae

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Wei, Li ^a,b   Xin, Yi ^a,b   Wang, Dongmei ^a   Jing, Xiaoyan ^a   Zhou, Qian ^a   Su, Xiaoquan ^a   Jia, Jing ^a,b   Ning, Kang ^a   Chen, Feng ^d   Hu, Qiang ^c   Xu, Jian ^a  

^a QINGDAO INSTITUTE OF BIOENERGY AND BIOPROCESS TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Intragenus phylotyping strategy; Mitochondrial phylogenomes; Nannochloropsis; Plastid phylogenomes

Indexed keywords

CYCLOOXYGENASE 1; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 2; MOLECULAR MARKER; RNA 18S;

18S GENE; ARTICLE; CELL ORGANELLE; COX 1 GENE; COX 2 GENE; GENE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC PROCEDURES; INTRAGENUS PHYLOTYPING; ITS2 GENE; MICROALGA; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NANNOCHLOROPSIS; NANNOCHLOROPSIS GADITANA; NANNOCHLOROPSIS GRANULATA; NANNOCHLOROPSIS LIMNETICA; NANNOCHLOROPSIS OCEANICA; NANNOCHLOROPSIS OCULATA; NANNOCHLOROPSIS SALINA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLASTID; PSBA GENE; RBCL GENE; RM16 MT GENE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENOMICS; MICROALGAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLASTIDS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

ALGAE; EUSTIGMATOPHYCEAE; NANNOCHLOROPSIS;

EID: 84881082114     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-534     Document Type: Article

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