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Halibut mitochondrial genomes contain extensive heteroplasmic tandem repeat arrays involved in DNA recombination.
BMC genomics - 11 Jan 2008
Mjelle Kenneth A, Karlsen Bård O, Jørgensen Tor E, Moum Truls, Johansen Steinar D
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Halibuts are commercially important flatfish species confined to the North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans. We have determined the complete mitochondrial genome sequences of four specimens each of Atlantic halibut (Hippoglossus hippoglossus), Pacific halibut (Hippoglossus stenolepis) and Greenland halibut (Reinhardtius hippoglossoides), and assessed the nucleotide variability within and between...
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