Evaluating Purifying Selection in the Mitochondrial DNA of Various Mammalian Species

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Soares, Pedro ^a   Abrantes, Diogo ^a   Rito, Teresa ^a   Thomson, Noel ^b   Radivojac, Predrag ^c   Li, Biao ^c   Macaulay, Vincent ^b   Samuels, David C ^d   Pereira, Luísa ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e University of Porto   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; MAMMALIAN GENETICS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PURIFYING SELECTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DOGS; MAMMALS; MICE; PHYLOGENY; SUS SCROFA; WHALE, KILLER;

EID: 84875280073     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058993     Document Type: Article

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