Mitochondrial genomic comparisons of the subterranean termites from the genus Reticulitermes (Insecta: Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae)

Genome

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 188-202

  Cameron, Stephen L ^a,b   Whiting, Michael F ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Molecular diagnostics; Reticulitermes; Termites

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PRIMER DNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CONFORMATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOME; ISOPTERA; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENOME; ISOPTERA; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RNA, TRANSFER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

HEXAPODA; INSECTA; ISOPTERA; RETICULITERMES FLAVIPES; RETICULITERMES HAGENI; RETICULITERMES SANTONENSIS; RETICULITERMES VIRGINICUS; RHINOTERMITIDAE;

EID: 34249816507     PISSN: 08312796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/G06-148     Document Type: Article

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