Widespread recombination in published animal mtDNA sequences

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 925-933

  Tsaousis, A D ^a   Martin, D P ^b   Ladoukakis, E D ^a,c   Posada, D ^d   Zouros, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Animal mtDNA; Recombination

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; DATA BASE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HAPLOTYPE; HOMOPLASY; INVERTEBRATE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; SENESCENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 16344387680     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msi084     Document Type: Article

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