Extensive duplication events account for multiple control regions and pseudo-genes in the mitochondrial genome of the velvet worm Metaperipatus inae (Onychophora, Peripatopsidae)

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 293-300

  Braband, Anke ^a   Podsiadlowski, Lars ^b   Cameron, Stephen L ^c   Daniels, Savel ^d   Mayer, Georg ^e  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Evolution; Gene arrangement; Mitochondrial gene order; Panarthropoda; Random loss of genes

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CONFORMATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE ORDER; GENETICS; INVERTEBRATE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PSEUDOGENE; RNA GENE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE ORDER; GENES, RRNA; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; INVERTEBRATES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; PSEUDOGENES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

METAPERIPATUS; ONYCHOPHORA; PANARTHROPODA; PERIPATIDAE; PERIPATOPSIDAE;

EID: 77956229006     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2010.05.012     Document Type: Article

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