A complete mitochondrial DNA molecule of the white-handed gibbon, Hylobates lar, and comparison among individual mitochondrial genes of all hominoid genera

Hereditas

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 185-189

  Arnason, Ulfur ^a   Gullberg, Anette ^a   Xu, Xiufeng ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOLEUCINE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NUCLEOTIDE; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 16S;

ANIMAL TISSUE; APE; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GORILLA; HAPLORHINI; HOMINID; NONHUMAN; ORANG UTAN; START CODON; STOP CODON;

ALOCASIA MACRORRHIZOS; ANIMALIA; HAPLORHINI; HOMINIDAE; HOMINOIDEA; HOMO; HYLOBATES LAR; HYLOBATES SP.; HYLOBATIDAE; PAN TROGLODYTES; PONGO PYGMAEUS;

EID: 0029817874     PISSN: 00180661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-5223.1996.00185.x     Document Type: Article

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