The mitochondrial genome of the sea anemone Metridium senile (Cnidaria): Introns, a paucity of tRNA genes, and a near-standard genetic code

Genetics

Volumn 148, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 1091-1108

  Beagley, C Timothy ^a   Okimoto, Ronald ^a,b   Wolstenholme, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; TRANSFER RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CODON; DNA DETERMINATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA TRANSLATION; SEA ANEMONE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENETIC CODE; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEINS; RNA, TRANSFER; RNA, TRANSFER, TRP; SEA ANEMONES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ACTINIARIA; ANEMONE; ANTHOZOA; CNIDARIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INVERTEBRATA; METAZOA; METRIDIUM SENILE;

EID: 0031972433     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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