A comparative study of nemertean complete mitochondrial genomes, including two new ones for Nectonemertes cf. mirabilis and Zygeupolia rubens, may elucidate the fundamental pattern for the phylum Nemertea

BMC Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Chen, Hai Xia ^a,b   Sun, Shi Chun ^b   Sundberg, Per ^a   Ren, Wei Cheng ^c   Norenburg, Jon L ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^d DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene rearrangement; MtDNA; Nectonemertes mirabilis; Nemertea; Phylogeny; Zygeupolia rubens

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; TRANSFER RNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; AT RICH SEQUENCE; CEPHALOTHRIX; CEPHALOTHRIX HONGKONGIENSIS; CODON USAGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENE ORDER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC CODE; HETERONEMERTEA; HOPLONEMERTEA; LINEUS VIRIDIS; LOPHOTROCHOZOA; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MITOCHONDRIAL VOLUME; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NECTONEMERTES MIRABILIS; NEMERTEA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARANEMERTES PEREGRINA; PHYLOGENOMICS; RNA GENE; RNA REPLICATION; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; RNA TRANSLATION; TANDEM REPEAT; TRANSFER RNA GENE; ZYGEUPOLIA RUBENS; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CODON; GENETICS; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY;

ARTHROPODA; BILATERIA; HETERONEMERTEA; HOPLONEMERTEA; LINEUS VIRIDIS; LOPHOTROCHOZOA; METAZOA; NECTONEMERTES MIRABILIS; NEMERTEA; PARANEMERTES PEREGRINA; VERTEBRATA; ZYGEUPOLIA; ZYGEUPOLIA RUBENS;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENE ORDER; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RNA, TRANSFER;

EID: 84859752085     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-139     Document Type: Article

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