Unprecedented heterogeneity in the synonymous substitution rate within a plant genome

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1228-1236

  Zhu, Andan ^a   Guo, Wenhu ^a,b   Jain, Kanika ^a,b   Mower, Jeffrey P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ajuga reptans; Intragenomic rate heterogeneity; Mitochondrial genome; Nonstandard start codons; Plastid genome

Indexed keywords

AJUGA REPTANS; ARTICLE; BUGLEWEED; GENE CLUSTER; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENOME; PLASTID GENOME; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION;

AJUGA REPTANS; INTRAGENOMIC RATE HETEROGENEITY; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; NONSTANDARD START CODONS; PLASTID GENOME;

AJUGA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CODON, INITIATOR; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENOME, PLANT; GENOME, PLASTID; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 84899580564     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msu079     Document Type: Article

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