High mutation rates in the mitochondrial genomes of Daphnia pulex

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 763-769

  Xu, Sen ^a   Schaack, Sarah ^b,c   Seyfert, Amanda ^b   Choi, Eunjin ^b   Lynch, Michael ^b   Cristescu, Melania E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c REED COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

asexuality; mitochondria effective population size; mitochondrial DNA; mitochondrial evolution; mutation hotspots; mutation accumulation

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAPHNIA; EUKARYOTE; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION SIZE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DAPHNIA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; MITOCHONDRIA; MUTATION; MUTATION RATE; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA PULEX; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84855874848     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msr243     Document Type: Article

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