Insect mitochondrial control region: A review of its structure, evolution and usefulness in evolutionary studies

Biochemical Systematics and Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 99-120

  Zhang, De Xing ^a   Hewitt, Godfrey M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

A+T rich region; concerted evolution; heteroplasmy; mitochondrial DNA; molecular marker; mutation pressure; PCR artefacts; polymorphism; rate of evolution; tandem repetition

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; GENETIC MARKER; INSECT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 0030952282     PISSN: 03051978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-1978(96)00042-7     Document Type: Article

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