Hypervariability of ascidian mitochondrial gene order: Exposing the Myth of deuterostome organelle genome stability

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 211-215

  Gissi, Carmela ^a   Pesole, Graziano ^b,c   Mastrototaro, Francesco ^b   Iannelli, Fabio ^a   Guida, Vanessa ^a   Griggio, Francesca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ascidians; Gene order; Mitochondrial genome; Rearrangements

Indexed keywords

CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; TRANSFER RNA;

APLOUSOBRANCHIA; ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEUTEROSTOME; GENE; GENE LOCATION; GENE ORDER; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENETIC STABILITY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MOLLUSC; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGANELLE SIZE; PHYLOGENY; STOLIDOBRANCHIA;

ANIMALS; GENE ORDER; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; MODELS, GENETIC; UROCHORDATA;

APLOUSOBRANCHIA; ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA; BIVALVIA; CHORDATA; DEUTEROSTOMIA; GASTROPODA; MOLLUSCA; PHLEBOBRANCHIA; SCAPHOPODA; STOLIDOBRANCHIA; UROCHORDATA;

EID: 74549158791     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msp234     Document Type: Article

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