Mechanisms and convergence of compensatory evolution in mammalian mitochondrial tRNAs

Nature Genetics

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1207-1212

  Kern, Andrew D ^a   Kondrashov, Fyodor A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL RNA; TRANSFER RNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RNA; RNA, MITOCHONDRIAL;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME SUBSTITUTION; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; ANIMAL; CONFORMATION; GENETIC EPISTASIS; GENETICS; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MAMMALS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; RNA; RNA, TRANSFER;

EID: 16544384596     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1451     Document Type: Article

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