Two new avian mitochondrial genomes (penguin and goose) and a summary of bird and reptile mitogenomic features

Gene

Volumn 302, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 43-52

  Slack, Kerryn E ^a,b   Janke, Axel ^a   Penny, David ^b   Arnason, Ulfur ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Avian evolution; Complete mtDNAs; Genome annotation

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID;

ARTICLE; BIRD; CHICKEN; FOWL; GENE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRAIT; GENOME; GOOSE; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PENGUIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPTILE; STOP CODON; TAXONOMY;

ANAS SP.; ANSER ALBIFRONS; ANSER SP.; ANSERIFORMES; AVES; EUDYPTULA; EUDYPTULA MINOR; GALLIFORMES; GALLUS GALLUS; PASSERIFORMES; REPTILIA; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 0037413698     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378111902010533     Document Type: Article

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