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Table 1. Plasmids and strains used in the study.

Plasmid/strain	Characteristics	Source
pGEM-3Zf(+)	Amp^r	Promega
pBT	Cm^r	Stratagene
pGEMperC	pGEM-3Zf(+) derivative, carrying a 1.34 kb fragment of PCR-amplified genomic DNA with the ORF of the cytochrome c peroxidase gene (perC; ZZ60192) cloned between the BamHI and HindIII sites of the MCS	Present work
pGEMperC : : cm^r	pGEMperC derivative, carrying in the AgeI site of the perC a 1.3 kb AgeI restriction fragment of pBT, with a 0.7 kb chloramphenicol-resistance ORF	Present work
pBBR1MCS-2	Kan^r	NCBI GenBank
		U23751
pBBRperC	pBBR1MCS-2 derivative, carrying a 1.57 kb fragment of PCR-amplified genomic DNA with the cytochrome c peroxidase gene (perC; ZZ60192) and its promoter region, cloned between HindIII and BamHI sites of the MCS	Present work
Zm6	Parent strain	ATCC 29191
Zm6-cytB	Zm6 strain with a Cm^r insert in the ORF of the cytochrome b subunit gene (ZMO 0957) of the bc₁ complex	Strazdina et al. (2012)
Zm6-perC	Zm6 strain with a Cm^r insert in the ORF of perC	Present work
Zm6-perCpBBRperC	Zm6-perC, carrying plasmid pBBRperC	Present work