Paths of heritable mitochondrial dna mutation and heteroplasmy in reference and gas-1 strains of caenorhabditis elegans

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue APR, 2016, Pages

  Wernick, Riana I ^a   Estes, Suzanne ^b   Howe, Dana K ^a   Denver, Dee R ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis elegans; Experimental evolution; Heteroplasmy; Mitochondrial DNA; Mutation

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BIOINFORMATICS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTROPHORESIS; GAS 1 GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROPLASMY; INDEL MUTATION; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 84964816940     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2016.00051     Document Type: Article

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