Preventing the pollution of mitochondrial datasets with nuclear mitochondrial paralogs (numts)

Mitochondrion

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 246-254

  Calvignac, Sébastien ^a   Konecny, Lara ^a   Malard, Florian ^a   Douady, Christophe J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE DE FRANCE   (France)

Author keywords

Dilution; Enrichment; Long range PCR; Mitochondrial DNA; Numt; Paralog

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRUSTACEA; DILUTION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; LONG RANGE AMPLIFICATION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA ENRICHMENT; NONHUMAN; PARALOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROASELLUS AQUAECALIDAE; PROASELLUS ARAGONENSIS; PROASELLUS BANYULENSIS; PROASELLUS LIGUSTICUS; PROASELLUS ORTIZI; PSEUDOGENE; RNA EXTRACTION;

CELL NUCLEUS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSEUDOGENES; RNA;

EID: 79251597552     PISSN: 15677249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mito.2010.10.004     Document Type: Article

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