Evolution of the mitochondrial genome of Metazoa as exemplified by comparison of congeneric species.

doi:10.1038/hdy.2008.62

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Evolution of the mitochondrial genome of Metazoa as exemplified by comparison of congeneric species.

Heredity - 1 Oct 2008

Gissi C, Iannelli F, Pesole G

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The mitochondrial genome (mtDNA) of Metazoa is a good model system for evolutionary genomic studies and the availability of more than 1000 sequences provides an almost unique opportunity to decode the mechanisms of genome evolution over a large phylogenetic range. In this paper, we review several structural features of the metazoan mtDNA, such as gene content, genome size, genome architecture and the new...

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Evolution of the mitochondrial genome of Metazoa as exemplified by comparison of congeneric species.

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Evolution of the mitochondrial genome of Metazoa as exemplified by comparison of congeneric species.

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