The enigmatic mitochondrial genome of Rhabdopleura compacta (Pterobranchia) reveals insights into selection of an efficient tRNA system and supports monophyly of Ambulacraria

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Perseke, Marleen ^a,b   Bernt, Matthias ^a   Stadler, Peter F ^a,c,d,e,f,g   Schlegel, Martin ^a   Bernhard, Detlef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b SOUTH CHINA SEA INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICS IN THE SCIENCES   (Germany)

^d FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR CELL THERAPY AND IMMUNOLOGY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^g SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

codon reassignment; codon anticodon adaptation; deuterostome evolution; Hemichordata; Pterobranchia

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOMICS; INVERTEBRATE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; MUTATION; NATURAL SELECTION; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN; RNA;

ARTHROPODA; CHORDATA; DEUTEROSTOMIA; ECHINODERMATA; ENTEROPNEUSTA; HEMICHORDATA; METAZOA; PTEROBRANCHIA; RHABDOPLEURA COMPACTA;

TRANSFER RNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CODON; GENETICS; INVERTEBRATE CHORDATA; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

ANIMALS; CHORDATA, NONVERTEBRATE; CODON; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, TRANSFER;

EID: 79956189018     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-11-134     Document Type: Article

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