The mitochondrial genome of the ascalaphid owlfly Libelloides macaronius and comparative evolutionary mitochondriomics of neuropterid insects

BMC Genomics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Negrisolo, Enrico ^a   Babbucci, Massimiliano ^a   Patarnello, Tomaso ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOOXYGENASE 1; INSECT PROTEIN; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PROTEIN RRNL; PROTEIN RRNS; PROTEIN TRNC; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AMINO ACID; SPACER DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; ASCAPHALID OWLFLY; AT RICH SEQUENCE; BIOMICS; CODON USAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GC RICH SEQUENCE; GENE LOCATION; GENE ORDER; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOME SIZE; INSECT; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MITOCHONDRIOMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; RRNL GENE; RRNS GENE; SPECIES COMPARISON; START CODON; STOP CODON; TAXONOMIC RANK; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; GENETICS; GENOME; GENOMICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OPEN READING FRAME;

ANIMALIA; ASCALAPHIDAE; HEXAPODA; MEGALOPTERA; NEUROPTERA; NEUROPTERIDA; RAPHIDIOPTERA;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON, INITIATOR; CODON, TERMINATOR; DNA, INTERGENIC; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, INSECT; GENOME, INSECT; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENOMICS; INSECTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; RNA, TRANSFER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 79955725073     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-12-221     Document Type: Article

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