The sequence and structure of the meadow grasshopper (Chorthippus parallelus) mitochondrial srRNA, ND2, COI, COII ATPase8 and 9 tRNA genes

Insect Molecular Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 127-139

  Szymura, J M ^a,b   Lunt, D H ^a,c   Hewitt, G M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chorthippus parallelus; Codon bias; Divergence levels; Grasshopper mitochondrial DNA; Saturation effects

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; DNA; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA; RNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; TRANSFER RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; ENZYMOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; GRASSHOPPER; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; START CODON; STOP CODON;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON, INITIATOR; CODON, TERMINATOR; DNA; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; EVOLUTION; GRASSHOPPERS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NADH DEHYDROGENASE; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RNA, TRANSFER;

EID: 0030152955     PISSN: 09621075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2583.1996.tb00047.x     Document Type: Article

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