Mitochondrial pseudogenes: Evolution's misplaced witnesses

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 314-321

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

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

EVOLUTION;

DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC MARKER; HUMAN; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PSEUDOGENE; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPONTANEOUS MUTATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0035358999     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5347(01)02151-6     Document Type: Review

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