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Evolution of Caenorhabditis mitochondrial genome pseudogenes and Caenorhabditis briggsae natural isolates.
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 May 2010
Raboin Michael J, Timko Ashley F, Howe Dana K, Félix Marie-Anne, Denver Dee R
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Although most metazoan mitochondrial genomes are highly streamlined and encode little noncoding DNA outside of the "AT" region, the accumulation of mitochondrial pseudogenes and other types of noncoding DNA has been observed in a growing number of animal groups. The nematode species Caenorhabditis briggsae harbors two mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) pseudogenes, named Psinad5-1 and Psinad5-2, presumably derived from...
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