The complete mitochondrial DNA sequence of the horseshoe crab Limulus polyphemus

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 813-824

  Lavrov, Dennis V ^a   Boore, Jeffrey L ^b   Brown, Wesley M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Codon bias; Evolution; Limulus polyphemus; Mitochondrial genome; Secondary structure

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; M PROTEIN; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NUCLEOTIDE; TRANSFER RNA;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BOOPHILUS; CODON; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; IXODES; LIMULUS; LIZARD; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TICK;

BOOPHILUS MICROPLUS; DROSOPHILA; IXODES; LIMULUS POLYPHEMUS; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS;

EID: 0034026576     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a026360     Document Type: Article

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