Evidence for a fourteenth mtDNA-encoded protein in the female-transmitted mtDNA of marine mussels (Bivalvia: Mytilidae)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Breton, Sophie ^a   Ghiselli, Fabrizio ^b   Passamonti, Marco ^b   Milani, Liliana ^b   Stewart, Donald T ^c   Hoeh, Walter R ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c ACADIA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSFER; DOUBLY UNIPARENTAL INHERITANCE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FEMALE; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME SIZE; INHERITANCE; MALE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUSCULISTA SENHOUSIA; MUSSEL; MYTILUS; MYTILUS GALLOPROVINCIALIS; MYTILUS TROSSULUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; REGULATOR GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; ANIMAL; BIVALVE; GENETICS; GENOME IMPRINTING;

ANIMALIA; BIVALVIA; CRENELLINAE; MUSCULISTA SENHOUSIA; MYTILIDAE; MYTILINAE; MYTILUS;

ANIMALS; BIVALVIA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; OPEN READING FRAMES;

EID: 79955682606     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019365     Document Type: Article

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