The evolution of species-type specificity in the global DNA sequence organization of mitochondrial genomes

Genome

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 342-356

  Hill, Kathleen A ^a,b   Singh, Shiva M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Chaos representation; Mitochondrial genomes; Oligonucleotide frequencies; Primary sequence organization

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; ECHINODERMATA; EUKARYOTA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; MYCOPLASMA CAPRICOLUM; MYCOPLASMATALES; PROKARYOTA; PROTOZOA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031153988     PISSN: 08312796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/g97-047     Document Type: Article

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