Genetic aspects of mitochondrial genome evolution

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 328-338

  Bernt, Matthias ^a   Braband, Anke ^b   Schierwater, Bernd ^c,d,e   Stadler, Peter F ^a,f,g,h,i  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b LGC Genomics GmbH   (Germany)

^c ITZ   (Germany)

^d DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICS IN THE SCIENCES   (Germany)

^g FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR CELL THERAPY AND IMMUNOLOGY   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

ⁱ SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromosome structure; Gene content; Genetic code; Phylogenomics; Replication; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; METAZOA;

EID: 84883456943     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: 10959513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.10.020     Document Type: Article

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