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Conservation of plastid sequences in the plant nuclear genome for millions of years facilitates endosymbiotic evolution.
Plant physiology - 1 Dec 2011
Rousseau-Gueutin Mathieu, Ayliffe Michael A, Timmis Jeremy N
Abstract excerpt
The nuclear genome of eukaryotes contains large amounts of cytoplasmic organelle DNA (nuclear integrants of organelle DNA [norgs]). The recent sequencing of many mitochondrial and chloroplast genomes has enabled investigation of the potential role of norgs in endosymbiotic evolution. In this article, we describe a new polymerase chain reaction-based method that allows the identification and evolutionary study of...
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