Comparative mitochondrial genomics of snakes: Extraordinary substitution rate dynamics and functionality of the duplicate control region

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Jiang, Zhi J ^a,b   Castoe, Todd A ^c,d   Austin, Christopher C ^a   Burbrink, Frank T ^a,e   Herron, Matthew D ^c,f   McGuire, Jimmy A ^a,g   Parkinson, Christopher L ^c   Pollock, David D ^d  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Scripps Florida ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^e CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^f University of Arizona   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DYNAMICS; GENE CONTROL; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC STABILITY; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; SNAKE; ANIMAL; BAYES THEOREM; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GENOMICS; METHODOLOGY; MUTATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AGKISTRODON; AGKISTRODON PISCIVORUS; ANIMALIA; PANTHEROPHIS GUTTATUS; PANTHEROPHIS SLOWINSKII; SERPENTES; VERTEBRATA;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DUPLICATION; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENOMICS; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, TRANSFER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SNAKES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34548136104     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-7-123     Document Type: Article

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