Variations in ribosomal DNA and mitochondrial DNA among chromosomal species of subterranean mole rats

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 85-92

  Suzuki, Hitoshi ^a   Wakana, Shigeharu ^b   Yonekawa, Hiromichi ^c   Moriwaki, Kazuo ^d   Sakurai, Susumu ^a   Nevo, Eviatar ^d  

^a JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Ctrl Inst for Experimental Animals   (Japan)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA); mole rats; restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP); ribosomal DNA (rDNA); Spalax

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME NUMBER; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; LIVER MITOCHONDRION; MOLE RAT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

LEUCODON; NANNOSPALAX EHRENBERGI; NANNOSPALAX LEUCODON; SPALAX;

EID: 0030065705     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a025574     Document Type: Article

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