Article
Evolution of hominoid mitochondrial DNA with special reference to the silent substitution rate over the genome.
Journal of molecular evolution - 1 Jun 1993
Kondo R, Horai S, Satta Y, Takahata N
Abstract excerpt
Focusing on the synonymous substitution rate, we carried out detailed sequence analyses of hominoid mitochondrial (mt) DNAs of ca. 5-kb length. Owing to the outnumbered transitions and strong biases in the base compositions, synonymous substitutions in mtDNA reach rapidly a rather low saturation...
Topics
- Adenosine Triphosphatases
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Base Composition
- Consensus Sequence
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Electron Transport Complex IV
- Genes
- Genetic Markers
- Genome, Human
- Hominidae
- Humans
- Hylobates
- Models, Genetic
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- NADH Dehydrogenase
- Nucleic Acid Conformation