Article
Heteroplasmy of short tandem repeats in mitochondrial DNA of Atlantic cod, Gadus morhua.
Genetics - 1 Sept 1992
Arnason E, Rand D M
Abstract excerpt
The mitochondrial DNA of the Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) contains a tandem array of 40-bp repeats in the D-loop region of the molecule. Variation among molecules in the copy number of these repeats results in mtDNA length variation and heteroplasmy (the presence of more than one form of mtDNA in an individual). In a sample of fish collected from different localities around Iceland and off George's Bank, each...
Topics
- Animals
- Atlantic Ocean
- Base Sequence
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Densitometry
- Fishes
- Gene Frequency
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Nucleic Acid Conformation
- Polymerase Chain Reaction