A comprehensive analysis of three Asiatic black bear mitochondrial genomes (subspecies ussuricus, formosanus and mupinensis), with emphasis on the complete mtDNA sequence of Ursus thibetanus ussuricus (Ursidae)

Mitochondrial DNA

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 418-429

  Hwang, Dae Sik ^a   Ki, Jang Seu ^a   Jeong, Dong Hyuk ^b   Kim, Bo Hyun ^b   Lee, Bae Keun ^b   Han, Sang Hoon ^c   Lee, Jae Seong ^a  

^a Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^b Korea National Park Service   (South Korea)

^c National Institute of Biological Resources   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Asiatic black bear; Control region; Minisatellite; Mitochondrial genome; Ursus thibetanus

Indexed keywords

DNA MINISATELLITE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEAR; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN MOTIF; SPECIES DIVERSITY; URSUS THIBETANUS USSURICUS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; LOCUS CONTROL REGION; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; REPLICATION ORIGIN; RNA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RNA, TRANSFER; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; URSIDAE;

URSIDAE; URSUS AMERICANUS; URSUS THIBETANUS; URSUS THIBETANUS USSURICUS;

EID: 54949114753     PISSN: 19401736     EISSN: 19401744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19401730802389525     Document Type: Article

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