The mitochondrial genome of the pinewood nematode (Bursaphelenchus xylophilus) lineage introduced in Europe

Mitochondrial DNA

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 420-421

  Moreira, Cláudia ^a   Van Asch, Barbara ^a   Fonseca, Luís ^b   Pereira Castro, Isabel ^a   Silva, Raquel ^a   Azevedo, Luísa ^a   Mota, Manuel ^c   Abrantes, Isabel ^b   Amorim, António ^a   Pereira, Filipe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Bursaphelenchus xylophilus; Incomplete stop codon; Indel; Mitochondrial DNA; Mononucleotide repeat; Pine wilt disease

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PROTEIN; PROTEIN ND4; TYROSINE TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; STOP CODON;

ARTICLE; BURSAPHELENCHUS XYLOPHILUS; CONIFER; COX3 GENE; DNA SEQUENCE; EUROPE; GENE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; INDEL MUTATION; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PORTUGAL; SOUTH KOREA; STOP CODON; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; GENETICS; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TYLENCHIDA;

BURSAPHELENCHUS XYLOPHILUS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON, TERMINATOR; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; INDEL MUTATION; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORTUGAL; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TYLENCHIDA;

EID: 84902453456     PISSN: 19401736     EISSN: 19401744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/19401736.2013.809438     Document Type: Article

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