Tandem duplication via light-strand synthesis may provide a precursor for mitochondrial genomic rearrangement

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 71-75

  Macey, J Robert ^a   Schulte II, James A ^a   Larson, Allan ^a   Papenfuss, Theodore J ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphisbaenia; Bipes biporus; Genomic organization; Mitochondrial DNA; Phylogenetics; Reptile; Squamata; Transfer RNA

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOGENE; REPTILE; RNA GENE;

AMPHISBAENIA; BIPES; BIPES BIPORUS; REPTILIA; SQUAMATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031984285     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a025849     Document Type: Article

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