The complete female- and male-transmitted mitochondrial genome of Meretrix lamarckii

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Bettinazzi, Stefano ^a   Plazzi, Federico ^a   Passamonti, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; TRANSFER RNA; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; CLAM; COX2 GENE; FEMALE; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INHERITANCE; MALE; MERETRIX LAMARCKII; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BIVALVE; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BIVALVIA; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RNA, TRANSFER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 85014628453     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0153631     Document Type: Article

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