Multiple nuclear pseudogenes of mitochondrial cytochrome b in Ctenomys (Caviomorpha, Rodentia) with either great similarity to or high divergence from the true mitochondrial sequence

Heredity

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 538-547

  Mirol, Patricia M ^a,b   Mascheretti, Silvia ^a,c   Searle, Jeremy B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ctenomys; Cytochrome b; Mitochondrial DNA; Nuclear pseudogenes; numtDNA

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOCHROME B GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCING; GENE TRANSFER; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIMER DNA; PSEUDOGENE; SOUTH AMERICA;

ANIMALS; CYTOCHROME B GROUP; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENETIC MARKERS; MITOCHONDRIA; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSEUDOGENES; RODENTIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

AVES; CAVIOMORPHA; CTENOMYS; EMBRYOPHYTA; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0033937335     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2540.2000.00689.x     Document Type: Article

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