The complete mitochondrial genome of the Chinese giant salamander, Andrias davidianus (Amphibia: Caudata)

Gene

Volumn 311, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 93-98

  Zhang, Peng ^a   Chen, Yue Qin ^a   Liu, Yi Fei ^a   Zhou, Hui ^a   Qu, Liang Hu ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Long and accurate polymerase chain reaction; Mitochondrial genome; Non coding region; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PRIMER DNA; PRIMER RNA; PROTEIN; RIBOSOME RNA; THREONINE; TRANSFER RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMPHIBIA; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; DNA SEQUENCE; FISH; GENE ISOLATION; GENE ORDER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENOME; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARAMETER; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALAMANDER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES; VERTEBRATE;

AMPHIBIA; AMPHIUMA MEANS; ANDRIAS; ANDRIAS DAVIDIANUS; CAUDATA; CROSSOPTERYGII; PISCES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037633407     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(03)00560-2     Document Type: Article

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