Differentiation of somatic mitochondria and the structural changes in mtDNA during development of the dicyemid Dicyema japonicum (Mesozoa)

Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Volumn 273, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 441-449

  Awata, Hiroko ^a   Noto, Tomoko ^a,b   Endoh, Hiroshi ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Dicyemid mesozoans; Differentiation; Minicircles; Somatic mitochondria; Stem mitochondria

Indexed keywords

BROXURIDINE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; TRACER;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICYEMA JAPONICUM; DIFFERENTIATION; DILUTION; DNA MODIFICATION; DNA REPLICATION; DNA STRUCTURE; DNA SYNTHESIS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GERM CELL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC CELL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, CIRCULAR; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; MITOCHONDRIA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PARASITES; REPLICATION ORIGIN;

CEPHALOPODA; DICYEMA; DICYEMIDA; MESOZOA;

EID: 23044488072     PISSN: 16174615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00438-005-1157-2     Document Type: Article

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