The evolution of the mitochondrial genetic code in arthropods revisited

Mitochondrial DNA

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 84-91

  Abascal, Federico ^a,b   Posada, David ^b   Zardoya, Rafael ^a  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Arthropod; Bayesian inference; Genetic code

Indexed keywords

LYSINE; SERINE; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; CODON; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; EVOLUTION; GENETIC CODE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BAYES THEOREM; CODON; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC CODE; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; MITOCHONDRIA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, TRANSFER, LYS; RNA, TRANSFER, SER;

ARTHROPODA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 84859323555     PISSN: 19401736     EISSN: 19401744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/19401736.2011.653801     Document Type: Article

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