Positive selection on the killer whale mitogenome

Biology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 116-118

  Foote, Andrew D ^a   Morin, Phillip A ^b   Durban, John W ^b,c   Pitman, Robert L ^b   Wade, Paul ^c   Willerslev, Eske ^a   Gilbert, M Thomas P ^a   Fonseca, Rute R Da ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b SOUTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c ALASKA FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Genome; Mitochondria; Selection

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CELL ORGANELLE; DATA SET; ECOTYPE; FUNCTIONAL CHANGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NICHE; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; POLYMORPHISM; SELECTION; WHALE;

ANTARCTICA;

EUKARYOTA; ORCINUS ORCA;

EID: 79551484061     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2010.0638     Document Type: Article

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