Deleterious mutations at the mitochondrial ND3 gene in South American marsh rats (Holochilus)

Genetics

Volumn 150, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 359-368

  Kennedy, Patricia ^a   Nachman, Michael W ^a  

^a The University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOUTH AMERICA; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTEINS; RODENTIA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA; HOLOCHILUS; HOLOCHILUS BRASILIENSIS; HOLOCHILUS SCIUREUS; HOLOCHILUS VULPINUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 0031694215     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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