Evolution of Chloroplast Transcript Processing in Plasmodium and Its Chromerid Algal Relatives

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Dorrell, Richard G ^a   Drew, James ^a   Nisbet, R Ellen R ^a,b   Howe, Christopher J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ALVEOLATA; CHLOROPLASTS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASTIDS; POLY U; RNA PRECURSORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84893753562     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004008     Document Type: Article

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