Mutation and evolutionary rates in adélie penguins from the antarctic

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Millar, Craig D ^a   Dodd, Andrew ^b   Anderson, Jennifer ^b   Gibb, Gillian C ^b   Ritchie, Peter A ^b,f   Baroni, Carlo ^c,d   Woodhams, Michael D ^e   Hendy, Michael D ^e   Lambert, David M ^b,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^d CNR   (Italy)

^e MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^f VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^g GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PENGUIN; ANIMAL; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; POPULATION GENETICS;

PYGOSCELIS ADELIAE; SPHENISCIDAE;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMALS; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 55249118852     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000209     Document Type: Article

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