Article
Mutation rates and intraspecific divergence of the mitochondrial genome of Pristionchus pacificus.
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Aug 2011
Molnar Ruxandra I, Bartelmes Gabi, Dinkelacker Iris, Witte Hanh, Sommer Ralf J
Abstract excerpt
Evolutionary reconstruction of the natural history of an organism ultimately requires knowledge about the development, population genetics, ecology, and phylogeny of the species. Such investigations would benefit from studies of mutational processes because mutations are the source of natural variation. The nematode Pristionchus pacificus has been developed as a model organism in evolutionary biology by comparing...
Topics
- Animals
- Codon
- Evolution, Molecular
- Gene Order
- Genes, Helminth
- Genome, Mitochondrial
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Nematoda
- Open Reading Frames
- Phylogeny