title: Intramolecular recombination of a mitochondrial minicircular plasmid-like DNA of date-palm mediated by a set of short direct-repeat sequences.
abstract: A molecular clone containing the complete sequence of a mitochondrial circular plasmid-like DNA (the R plasmid) isolated from the date-palm variety V3DP was used as a probe in Southern analyses of mitochondrial DNA prepared from other varieties. Another circular structure (the S plasmid) was detected in some of these varieties, and sequenced from variety V2DP. It appears that the R plasmid could have arisen from the S plasmid by an intermolecular recombination event at a set of 26-bp imperfect short direct repeats.
authors.affiliation: Département de Biologie, Faculté des Sciences Semlalia, Université Cadi Ayyad, BP S15, 40001 Marrakech, Maroc.
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Benslimane
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hartmann
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ouenzar
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rode
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D004270:DNA, Circular / Q000235:genetics; D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial / Q000235:genetics*; D018744:DNA, Plant / Q000235:genetics*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010944:Plants / Q000235:genetics*; D010957:Plasmids / Q000235:genetics; D011995:Recombination, Genetic; D012091:Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
chemical_list: D004270:DNA, Circular; D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial; D018744:DNA, Plant