Complete sequence and gene organization of the mitochondrial genome of Siamensis Crocodile (Crocodylus siamensis)

Molecular Biology Reports

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 133-138

  Ji, Xuefeng ^a   Wu, Xiaobing ^a   Yan, Peng ^a   Amato, George ^b  

^a ANHUI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crocodylus siamensis; Genome; Mitochondrial; Structure

Indexed keywords

GUANINE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NUCLEOTIDE; RIBOSOME RNA; THYMINE; TRANSFER RNA;

ALLIGATOR; ARTICLE; CODON; CROCODYLUS SIAMENSIS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE ORDER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOME ANALYSIS; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ALLIGATORS AND CROCODILES; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RNA, TRANSFER; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

CROCODYLUS SIAMENSIS; TRIFOLIUM; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 44049100085     PISSN: 03014851     EISSN: 15734978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11033-007-9062-x     Document Type: Article

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