The highly compact structure of the mitochondrial DNA polymerase genomic region of Drosophila melanogaster: Functional and evolutionary implications

Insect Molecular Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 315-322

  Lefai, E ^a   Fernandez Moreno M A ^a   Kaguni, L S ^b   Garesse, R ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOMÉDICAS ALBERTO SOLS   (Spain)

^b Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Bidirectional promoter; DNA polymerase ; Drosophila; Gene cluster

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE GAMMA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE; GENETICS; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, INSECT; MITOCHONDRIA; MULTIGENE FAMILY;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUKARYOTA; MELANOGASTER; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0034210982     PISSN: 09621075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2583.2000.00191.x     Document Type: Article

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