Mitochondrial DNA recombination - No need to panic

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1433, 1999, Pages 2037-2039

  Macaulay, Vincent ^a   Richards, Martin ^a   Sykes, Bryan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Errors in data; Mitochondria; Recombination

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033595825     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0883     Document Type: Article

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