The complete DNA sequence of the mitochondrial genome of a 'living fossil,' the coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae)

Genetics

Volumn 146, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 995-1010

  Zardoya, Rafael ^a   Meyer, Axel ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; COELENTERATE; DNA SEQUENCE; FOSSIL; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FISHES; GENOME; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ACTINOPTERYGII; COELENTERATA; CROSSOPTERYGII; DIPNOI; LATIMERIA CHALUMNAE; PISCES; TETRAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0030822805     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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