'Why genomes in pieces?' revisited: Sucking lice do their own thing in mtDNA circle game

Genome Research

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 700-702

  Rand, David M ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; TRANSFER RNA;

DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HUMAN; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; NONHUMAN; NOTE; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; ANOPLURA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENOMICS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MAMMALS;

ANOPLURA;

EID: 66049143117     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.091132.109     Document Type: Note

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