New views on strand asymmetry in insect mitochondrial genomes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1-10

  Wei, Shu Jun ^a,b   Shi, Min ^a   Chen, Xue Xin ^a   Sharkey, Michael J ^c   van Achterberg, Cornelis ^d   Ye, Gong Yin ^a   He, Jun Hua ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT AND ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^d NATURALIS BIODIVERSITY CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ALEYRODIDAE; AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; AT RICH SEQUENCE; BRACONIDAE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HEMIPTERA; INSECT; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; NONHUMAN; PHILOPTERIDAE; STRAND ASYMMETRY; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

ALEYRODIDAE; ANIMALIA; BRACONIDAE; HEMIPTERA; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; PHILOPTERIDAE; PHTHIRAPTERA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; INSECTS; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION;

EID: 77958574984     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012708     Document Type: Article

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