An unusual source of apparent mitochondrial heteroplasmy: Duplicate mitochondrial control regions in Thalassarche albatrosses

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 3605-3613

  Abbott, Cathryn L ^a   Double, Michael C ^a   Trueman, John W H ^a   Robinson, Anna ^b   Cockburn, Andrew ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Biology and Environment   (Australia)

Author keywords

Albatross; Control region; Gene duplication; Mitochondrial DNA; Procellariiformes; Thalassarche

Indexed keywords

AVES; DIOMEDEIDAE; PROCELLARIIFORMES; THALASSARCHE;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE ORDER; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; REGULATOR GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIRDS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE ORDER; LOCUS CONTROL REGION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 33644874509     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2005.02672.x     Document Type: Article

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