Structure, transcription, and variability of metazoan mitochondrial genome: Perspectives from an unusual mitochondrial inheritance system

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1535-1554

  Ghiselli, Fabrizio ^a   Milani, Liliana ^a   Guerra, Davide ^a   Chang, Peter L ^b   Breton, Sophie ^c   Nuzhdin, Sergey V ^b   Passamonti, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

CORR; Doubly uniparental inheritance; Germ line mitochondria; Mitochondrial intergenic regions; Mitochondrial polymorphism; Novel mitochondrial ORFs

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CORR; DOUBLY UNIPARENTAL INHERITANCE; FEMALE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GERM LINE MITOCHONDRIA; GONAD; MALE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MITOCHONDRIAL INTERGENIC REGIONS; MITOCHONDRIAL POLYMORPHISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NOVEL MITOCHONDRIAL ORFS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

CORR; DOUBLY UNIPARENTAL INHERITANCE; GERM LINE MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL INTERGENIC REGIONS; MITOCHONDRIAL POLYMORPHISM; NOVEL MITOCHONDRIAL ORFS;

ANIMALS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENOMIC STRUCTURAL VARIATION; GONADS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84891654512     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evt112     Document Type: Article

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