Bird mitochondrial gene order: Insight from 3 warbler mitochondrial genomes

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 475-477

  Singh, Tiratha Raj ^a,b   Shneor, Ophir ^a   Huchon, Dorothée ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b MAULANA AZAD NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Acrocephalus; Complete mitochondrial genome; Concerted evolution; Control region; Gene duplication; Sylvia; Sylvioidea

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRD; GENE ORDER; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PLESIOMORPHY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SONGBIRD;

ANIMALS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENE ORDER; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; SONGBIRDS;

ACROCEPHALUS; ACROCEPHALUS SCIRPACEUS; AVES; PASSERI; PASSERIFORMES; PHYLLOSCOPUS; SYLVIA; SYLVIA ATRICAPILLA; SYLVIA CRASSIROSTRIS;

EID: 39749186003     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msn003     Document Type: Article

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