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SUBMITTER: Baldauf SL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC54314 | biostudies-other | 1990 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 19900701 14
Previous work suggested that the tufA gene, encoding protein synthesis elongation factor Tu, was transferred from the chloroplast to the nucleus within the green algal lineage giving rise to land plants. In this report we investigate the timing and mode of transfer by examining chloroplast and nuclear DNA from the three major classes of green algae, with emphasis on the class Charophyceae, the proposed sister group to land plants. Filter hybridizations reveal a chloroplast tufA gene in all Ulvop ...[more]