The mitochondrial genomes of soft ticks have an arrangement of genes that has remained unchanged for over 400 million years

Insect Molecular Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 219-224

  Shao, R ^a   Aoki, Y ^b   Mitani, H ^b   Tabuchi, N ^b   Barker, S C ^a   Fukunaga, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b FUKUYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acari; Arthropod; Ixodida; Tick

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CODON; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE ORDER; GENETICS; JAPAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REGULATOR GENE; TICK;

ANIMALS; ARGASIDAE; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENE ORDER; JAPAN; LOCUS CONTROL REGION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; ARGASIDAE; ARTHROPODA; CARIOS; CARIOS CAPENSIS; HAEMAPHYSALIS; HAEMAPHYSALIS FLAVA; INVERTEBRATA; IXODIDA; IXODIDAE; ORNITHODOROS; ORNITHODOROS MOUBATA;

EID: 2942754225     PISSN: 09621075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0962-1075.2004.00447.x     Document Type: Article

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