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The mitochondrial genome of Arctica islandica; Phylogeny and variation.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Glöckner Gernot, Heinze Ivonne, Platzer Matthias, Held Christoph, Abele Doris
Abstract excerpt
Arctica islandica is known as the longest-lived non-colonial metazoan species on earth and is therefore increasingly being investigated as a new model in aging research. As the mitochondrial genome is associated with the process of aging in many species and bivalves are known to possess a peculiar mechanism of mitochondrial genome inheritance including doubly uniparental inheritance (DUI), we aimed to assess the...
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