Mitochondrial genomes and Doubly Uniparental Inheritance: New insights from Musculista senhousia sex-linked mitochondrial DNAs (Bivalvia Mytilidae)

BMC Genomics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Passamonti, Marco ^a   Ricci, Andrea ^a   Milani, Liliana ^a   Ghiselli, Fabrizio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BIVALVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COX2 GENE; FEMALE; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MALE; METAZOON; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MUSCULISTA SENHOUSIA; MYTILIDAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN MOTIF; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX LINKAGE; ANIMAL; CONFORMATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; INHERITANCE; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

BIVALVIA; MUSCULISTA; MUSCULISTA SENHOUSIA; MYTILIDAE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYTILIDAE; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 80052593773     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-12-442     Document Type: Article

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