NUMTs in sequenced eukaryotic genomes

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1081-1084

  Richly, Erik ^a   Leister, Dario ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PLANT BREEDING RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Duplication; Gene transfer; Genome evolution; Mitochondria; NUMT; Pseudogene

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NUCLEAR MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANOPHELES; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; EUKARYOTE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE LOSS; GENE NUMBER; GENE TRANSFER; GENOME; GENOME SIZE; GERM LINE; HUMAN; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEUROSPORA; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM; PSEUDOGENE; PUFFER FISH; RICE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

CELL NUCLEUS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ARABIDOPSIS; CAENORHABDITIS; EUKARYOTA; NEUROSPORA; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TAKIFUGU; TETRAODONTIDAE;

EID: 2442637641     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msh110     Document Type: Article

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