Novel protein genes in animal mtDNA: A new sex determination system in freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionoida)?

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1645-1659

  Breton, Sophie ^a   Stewart, Donald T ^b   Shepardson, Sally ^c   Trdan, Richard J ^c   Bogan, Arthur E ^d   Chapman, Eric G ^e   Ruminas, Andrew J ^a   Piontkivska, Helen ^a   Hoeh, Walter R ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ACADIA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c SAGINAW VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bivalvia; doubly uniparental inheritance; heteroplasmy; mtDNA; open reading frame; sex determination

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HERMAPHRODITIC SPECIES; HETEROPLASMY; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MITOCHONDRION; MUSSEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; SEX DETERMINATION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; FEMALE; FRESH WATER; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; OVUM; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX DETERMINATION ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; UNIONIDAE;

ANIMALIA; BIVALVIA; UNIONOIDA; VASCONCELLEA CANDICANS;

EID: 79955407749     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msq345     Document Type: Article

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