Tunicate mitogenomics and phylogenetics: Peculiarities of the Herdmania momus mitochondrial genome and support for the new chordate phylogeny

BMC Genomics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Singh, Tiratha R ^a   Tsagkogeorga, Georgia ^b   Delsuc, Frédéric ^b   Blanquart, Samuel ^c   Shenkar, Noa ^a,d   Loya, Yossi ^a   Douzery, Emmanuel J P ^b   Huchon, Dorothée ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^c LIRMM   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA; TRANSFER RNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; CHORDATA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTIONARY RATE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC CODE; GENOMICS; HERDMANIA MOMUS; METAZOON; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MONOPHYLY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLUM; PROBABILITY; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; GENE ORDER; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OPEN READING FRAME; UROCHORDATA;

ANIMALIA; ASCIDIA; BILATERIA; CHORDATA; HERDMANIA MOMUS; METAZOA; UROCHORDATA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE ORDER; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RNA, TRANSFER; UROCHORDATA;

EID: 71549149673     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-10-534     Document Type: Article

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