Significant levels of sequence divergence and gene rearrangements have occurred between the mitochondrial genomes of the wild mulberry silkmoth, Bombyx mandarina, and its close relative, the domesticated silkmoth, Bombyx mori [1]

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1385-1389

  Yukuhiro, Kenji ^a   Sezutsu, Hideki ^a,d   Itoh, Masanobu ^b   Shimizu, Koichi ^b   Banno, Yutaka ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b KYOTO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bombyx mandarina; Bombyx mori; Genetic differentiation; Mitochondrial genome

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; LETTER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SILKWORM; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENE; GENETICS; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

BOMBYX MANDARINA; BOMBYX MORI; INVERTEBRATA; MANDARINA; MORUS (PLANT);

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ANIMALS; BOMBYX; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENES, INSECT; GENOME; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, TRANSFER;

EID: 0036667701     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a004200     Document Type: Letter

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