First complete mitochondrial genome sequence from a box jellyfish reveals a highly fragmented linear architecture and insights into telomere evolution

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 52-58

  Smith, David Roy ^a   Kayal, Ehsan ^b   Yanagihara, Angel A ^c   Collins, Allen G ^b   Pirro, Stacy ^d   Keeling, Patrick J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d Iridian Genomes Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Alatina moseri; Cnidaria; Cubozoa; Gene conversion; Inverted repeat; Nucleotide diversity

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CNIDARIA; CUBOZOA; EUKARYOTA; HYDROZOA; SCYPHOZOA;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CUBOZOA; DNA FRAGMENTATION; GENE CONVERSION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; TELOMERE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CUBOZOA; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE CONVERSION; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TELOMERE;

EID: 84862993199     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evr127     Document Type: Article

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