A resourceful genome: Updating the functional repertoire and evolutionary role of animal mitochondrial DNAs

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 555-564

  Breton, Sophie ^a   Milani, Liliana ^b   Ghiselli, Fabrizio ^b   Guerra, Davide ^b   Stewart, Donald T ^c   Passamonti, Marco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c ACADIA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Animals; Mitochondrial genome; ORFan genes; Speciation

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CELL NUCLEUS DNA; MESSENGER RNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PROTON TRANSPORTING ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE SYNTHASE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE (UBIQUINONE); RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 16S; TRANSFER RNA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS;

ANIMAL; DOMESTICATION; EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE; ENERGY METABOLISM; EVOLUTION; GENE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETIC DRIFT; GENOME; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; PARTHENOGENESIS; PROTEIN CODING GENE; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; HUMANS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; MALE; METABOLISM; MODELS, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; HUMANS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; MALE; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; MODELS, GENETIC;

EID: 84915807668     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: 13624555     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2014.09.002     Document Type: Review

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