A hominoid-specific nuclear insertion of the mitochondrial D-loop: Implications for reconstructing ancestral mitochondrial sequences

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 463-469

  Zischler, Hans ^a,b   Geisert, Helga ^a   Castresana, Jose ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hominoidea; Mitochondrial D loop insertion; New World monkey; Old World monkey

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIMATE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

EID: 0031955142     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a025943     Document Type: Article

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