Rampant gene rearrangement and haplotype hypervariation among nematode mitochondrial genomes

Genetica

Volumn 139, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 611-615

  Hyman, Bradley C ^a   Lewis, Samantha C ^a   Tang, Sha ^a   Wu, Zhen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene order; Haplotype variation; Mitochondrial DNA; Nematode

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; GENE ORDER; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEMATODE;

ANIMALS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE ORDER; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; HAPLOTYPES; MODELS, GENETIC; NEMATODA;

CHROMADOREA; ENOPLEA; ISOPODA; MERMITHIDAE; NEMATODA; ROMANOMERMIS; ROMANOMERMIS CULICIVORAX; ROMANOMERMIS IYENGARI;

EID: 79955858253     PISSN: 00166707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10709-010-9531-3     Document Type: Article

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