Toxocara vitulorum (Ascaridida: Nematoda): Mitochondrial gene content, arrangement and composition compared with other Toxocara species

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 166, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 89-92

  Wickramasinghe, Susiji ^a   Yatawara, Lalani ^a   Rajapakse, R P V J ^b   Agatsuma, Takeshi ^a  

^a KOCHI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERADENIYA   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Gene arrangement; Mitochondrial genome; Phylogeny; Protein coding; Ribosomal; Toxocara vitulorum

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; CYTOCHROME B; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; CYTOSINE; GUANINE; PROTEIN; PROTON TRANSPORTING ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE SYNTHASE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE; THYMIDINE; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; ASCARIDOIDEA; ATG GENE; ATT GENE; CODING; CODON; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENE ORDER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GTG GENE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA GENE; STOP CODON; TOXOCARA; TOXOCARA CANIS; TOXOCARA MALAYSIENSIS; TOXOCARA VITULORUM; TOXOCARIASIS; TRANSLATION INITIATION; TTG GENE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BUFFALOES; GENE ORDER; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; TOXOCARA;

ASCARIDIDA; NEMATODA; TOXOCARA; TOXOCARA CANIS; TOXOCARA CATI; TOXOCARA VITULORUM;

EID: 64149116411     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2009.02.012     Document Type: Article

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