The complete mitochondrial genomes of two ghost moths, Thitarodes renzhiensis and Thitarodes yunnanensis: the ancestral gene arrangement in Lepidoptera

BMC Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Cao, Yong Qiang ^a,b   Ma, Chuan ^c   Chen, Ji Yue ^a   Yang, Da Rong ^a  

^a CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

gene rearrangement; mitochondrial genome; Thitarodes renzhiensis; Thitarodes yunnanensis

Indexed keywords

ANTICODON; ARTICLE; AT RICH SEQUENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COX1 GENE; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOME SIZE; LEPIDOPTERA; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOTH; NAD1 GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RRNS GENE; START CODON; TANDEM REPEAT; THITARODES RENZHIENSIS; THITARODES YUNNANENSIS; TRNI GENE; TRNM GENE; TRNQ GENE; TRNS GENE;

ANIMALS; GENE ORDER; GENES, INSECT; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; LEPIDOPTERA; MOTHS;

DITRYSIA; HEPIALIDAE; HEPIALOIDEA; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 84862509349     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-276     Document Type: Article

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