Low number of mitochondrial pseudogenes in the chicken (Gallus gallus) nuclear genome: Implications for molecular inference of population history and phylogenetics

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Pereira, Sérgio L ^a   Baker, Allan J ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVES; EUKARYOTA; GALLIFORMES; GALLUS; GALLUS GALLUS; MAMMALIA;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; CELL NUCLEUS; CHICKEN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PROCEDURES; PSEUDOGENE;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHICKENS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIA; PHYLOGENY; PSEUDOGENES;

EID: 13444263306     PISSN: 14712148     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-4-17     Document Type: Article

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