Selfish little circles: Transmission bias and evolution of large deletion-bearing mitochondrial DNA in caenorhabditis briggsae nematodes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Clark, Katie A ^a   Howe, Dana K ^a   Gafner, Kristin ^a   Kusuma, Danika ^a   Ping, Sita ^a   Estes, Suzanne ^b   Denver, Dee R ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; SELFISH MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BOTTLENECK POPULATION; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS BRIGGSAE; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOME; HERMAPHRODITIC SPECIES; HETEROPLASMY; INHERITANCE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NAD5 GENE; NATURAL POPULATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS; DNA, CIRCULAR; DNA, HELMINTH; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DELETION; HELMINTH PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NADH DEHYDROGENASE; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS BRIGGSAE; EUKARYOTA; METAZOA; NEMATODA;

EID: 84864458708     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041433     Document Type: Article

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