Homologous recombination between highly diverged mitochondrial sequences: Examples from maternally and paternally transmitted genomes

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1847-1859

  Ladoukakis, Emmanuel D ^a   Theologidis, Ioannis ^a   Rodakis, George C ^b   Zouros, Eleftherios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

doubly uniparental mtDNA inheritance; mtDNA recombination; sequence divergence

Indexed keywords

CYCLOOXYGENASE 1; CYCLOOXYGENASE 3; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HOMOPLASY; MALE; MISMATCH REPAIR; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MUSSEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIVALVIA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; GENOME; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 79957452012     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msr007     Document Type: Article

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