The highly rearranged mitochondrial genome of the plague thrips, Thrips imaginis (insecta: Thysanoptera): Convergence of two novel gene boundaries and an extraordinary arrangement of rRNA genes

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 362-370

  Shao, Renfu ^a   Barker, Stephen C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Duplicate control regions; Hemipteroid assemblage; MtDNA; rRNA gene transcription; Thrips imaginis

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; RIBOSOME RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETIC LINE; HEMIPTERA; INSECT GENETICS; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLAGUE; PSEUDOGENE; RNA GENE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; THRIPS IMAGINIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENOTYPE; INSECT VECTORS; INSECTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; PLAGUE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL;

ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; ARTHROPODA; HEMIPTERA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; PARANEOPTERA; PSOCOPTERA; THRIPS IMAGINIS; THYSANOPTERA;

EID: 0037359951     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msg045     Document Type: Article

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