The mitochondrial genome of the lizard Calotes versicolor and a novel gene inversion in South Asian draconine agamids

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1330-1339

  Amer, Sayed A M ^a,b   Kumazawa, Yoshinori ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Agamidae; Calotes versicolor; Gene inversion; Gene rearrangement; Homologous DNA recombination; Mitochondrial genome

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CALOTES VERSICOLOR; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; LIZARD; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; ANIMAL; ASIA; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; GENETICS; GENOME; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

AGAMIDAE; CALOTES VERSICOLOR; REPTILIA; SQUAMATA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; ASIA; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENOME; INVERSION, CHROMOSOME; LIZARDS; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA;

EID: 34548097611     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msm054     Document Type: Article

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