Modelling mitochondrial site polymorphisms to infer the number of segregating units and mutation rate

Biology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 397-400

  Hendy, Michael D ^a   Woodhams, Michael D ^a,c   Dodd, Andrew ^b,d  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d SUMMIT PLC   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ad lie penguins; Mitochondrial DNA; Mutation rate; Pedigree analysis; Segregating units

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENOMICS; HERITABILITY; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MUTATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLYMORPHISM;

ARTICLE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EUKARYOTE; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEGREGATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HETEROPLASMY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; PEDIGREE; PENGUIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

EUKARYOTA; PYGOSCELIS ADELIAE;

EID: 67649109297     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0104     Document Type: Article

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