Gene rearrangements in snake mitochondrial genomes: Highly concerted evolution of control-region-like sequences duplicated and inserted into a tRNA gene cluster

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1242-1254

  Kumazawa, Yoshinori ^a   Ota, Hidetoshi ^b   Nishida, Mutsumi ^c   Ozawa, Tomowo ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^c FUKUI PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

control region; gene rearrangement; mitochondrial DNA; phylogeny; snakes; tRNA

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; GLYCINE TRANSFER RNA; ISOLEUCINE TRANSFER RNA; METHIONINE TRANSFER RNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PHENYLALANINE TRANSFER RNA; PROLINE TRANSFER RNA; RIBOSOME RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; NONHUMAN; SNAKE;

CROTALINAE; OVOPHIS OKINAVENSIS; SERPENTES; VERTEBRATA; VIPER;

EID: 0029909927     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a025690     Document Type: Article

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