The human genome project reveals a continuous transfer of large mitochondrial fragments to the nucleus [3]

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 1833-1837

  Mourier, Tobias ^a   Hansen, Anders J ^a   Willerslev, Eske ^a   Arctander, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Human genome; Mitochondrial DNA; Nuclear insertions

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

CELL NUCLEUS; DNA SEQUENCE; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LETTER; MEDICAL GENETICS; MITOCHONDRION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

EID: 0034882969     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a003971     Document Type: Letter

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