Conflict between translation initiation and elongation in vertebrate mitochondrial genomes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Xia, Xuhua ^a,b,c   Huang, Huang ^a   Carullo, Malisa ^a   Betrán, Esther ^d   Moriyama, Etsuko N ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSFER RNA; METHIONINE TRANSFER RNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANTICODON; ARTICLE; BIVALVE; CELL ELONGATION; CODON USAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC SELECTION; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSLATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSLATION INITIATION; UROCHORDATA; VERTEBRATE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CODON; GENETICS; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; START CODON;

BIVALVIA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; ANTICODON; BIVALVIA; CODON; CODON, INITIATOR; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; MODELS, GENETIC; PEPTIDE CHAIN ELONGATION, TRANSLATIONAL; PEPTIDE CHAIN INITIATION, TRANSLATIONAL; RNA, TRANSFER, MET; SELECTION, GENETIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; UROCHORDATA; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 44249087250     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000227     Document Type: Article

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