Animal Mitochondria, Positive Selection and Cyto-Nuclear Coevolution: Insights from Pulmonates

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Parmakelis, Aristeidis ^a   Kotsakiozi, Panayiota ^a   Rand, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; COEVOLUTION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MCDONALD KREITMAN TEST; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POSITIVE SELECTION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SNAIL;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOCHROMES C; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MITOCHONDRIA; MUTATION; SELECTION, GENETIC; SNAILS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; GASTROPODA;

EID: 84876455566     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0061970     Document Type: Article

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