Evolutionary genomics in Metazoa: The mitochondrial DNA as a model system

Gene

Volumn 238, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 195-209

  Saccone, Cecilia ^a,b   De Giorgi, Carla ^b   Gissi, Carmela ^b   Pesole, Graziano ^c   Reyes, Aurelio ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Asymmetry; Base composition; Complete genomes; Gene arrangement; Phylogenetic reconstruction; Substitution rate

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENOME; MAMMAL; METAZOON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; VERTEBRATES;

CHORDATA; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; METAZOA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032860013     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(99)00270-X     Document Type: Article

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