Rates of gene rearrangement and nucleotide substitution are correlated in the mitochondrial genomes of insects

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1612-1619

  Shao, Renfu ^a   Dowton, Mark ^b   Murrell, Anna ^a   Barker, Stephen C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Hemipteroid; Mitochondrial clock; Molecular evolution; Psocoptera; Rate heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; INSECT; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; NONHUMAN; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ANIMAL; GENETICS; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; POINT MUTATION;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPSOCIDAE; PARANEOPTERA; PSOCOPTERA;

ANIMALS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; INSECTS; MITOCHONDRIA; POINT MUTATION;

EID: 2542462934     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msg176     Document Type: Article

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