Complete mtDNA of Ciona intestinalis Reveals Extensive Gene Rearrangement and the Presence of an atp8 and an Extra trnM Gene in Ascidians

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 376-389

  Gissi, Carmela ^a   Iannelli, Fabio ^a   Pesole, Graziano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

ATP synthase subunit 8; Gene duplication; Gene rearrangement; Genome organization; Mitochondrial genome; Tunicates tRNA

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTICODON; ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; CIONA INTESTINALIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CIONA INTESTINALIS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENOME; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEINS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RNA, TRANSFER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

ANIMALIA; ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA; CEPHALOCHORDATA; CIONA; CIONA INTESTINALIS; CIONA SAVIGNYI; HEMICHORDATA; UROCHORDATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 3142777033     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-003-2559-6     Document Type: Article

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