Evidence for recombination in scorpion mitochondrial DNA (Scorpiones: Buthidae)

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 272, Issue 1564, 2005, Pages 697-704

  Gantenbein, Benjamin ^a,c   Fet, Victor ^b   Gantenbein Ritter, Iris A ^a   Balloux, François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b MARSHALL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AO RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Buthidae; Cytochrome oxidase subunit I; Linkage disequilibrium; Mitochondrial DNA; Mitofusion; Scorpions

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CELL FUSION; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORPION; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALIA; BUTHIDAE; BUTHUS; MESOBUTHUS; MESOBUTHUS GIBBOSUS; SCORPIONES;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SCORPIONS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 20344367301     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.3017     Document Type: Article

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