Identification of highly-disrupted tRNA genes in nuclear genome of the red alga, Cyanidioschyzon merolae 10D

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Soma, Akiko ^a,d   Sugahara, Junichi ^b   Onodera, Akinori ^a   Yachie, Nozomu ^b,e,f   Kanai, Akio ^b   Watanabe, Satoru ^c   Yoshikawa, Hirofumi ^c   Ohnuma, Mio ^a   Kuroiwa, Haruko ^a   Kuroiwa, Tsuneyoshi ^a   Sekine, Yasuhiko ^a  

^a RIKKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Japan)

^d CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^f MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSFER RNA;

CHROMOSOME MAP; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT GENOME; RED ALGA; ARTICLE;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; RHODOPHYTA; RNA, TRANSFER;

EID: 84881330761     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep02321     Document Type: Article

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