Genomic gigantism: DNA loss is slow in mountain grasshoppers

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 246-253

  Bensasson, Douda ^a   Petrov, Dmitri A ^b   Zhang, De Xing ^c   Hartl, Daniel L ^a   Hewitt, Godfrey M ^d  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acrididae; C value paradox; Dead on arrival (DOA) sequences; Horizontal gene transfer; mtDNA; Nuclear copies; Numt sequences; numtDNA; Transposition

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DNA DAMAGE; DROSOPHILA; GENE DELETION; GIGANTISM; GRASSHOPPER; LAUPALA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PODISMA PEDESTRIS; POINT MUTATION; PSEUDOGENE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ACRIDIDAE; ANIMALIA; DOA; DROSOPHILA; EUKARYOTA; GRYLLIDAE; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; ITALOPODISMA; LAUPALA; PODISMA PEDESTRIS;

EID: 0035140685     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a003798     Document Type: Article

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