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Mitochondrial DNA in metazoa: degree of freedom in a frozen event.
Gene - 6 Mar 2002
Saccone Cecilia, Gissi Carmela, Reyes Aurelio, Larizza Alessandra, Sbisà Elisabetta, Pesole Graziano
Abstract excerpt
The mitochondrial genome (mtDNA), due to its peculiar features such as exclusive presence of orthologous genes, uniparental inheritance, lack of recombination, small size and constant gene content, certainly represents a major model system in studies on evolutionary genomics in metazoan. In 800 million years of evolution the gene content of metazoan mitochondrial genomes has remained practically frozen but...
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