New views on strand asymmetry in insect mitochondrial genomes.

Strand asymmetry in nucleotide composition is a remarkable feature of animal mitochondrial genomes. Understanding the mutation processes that shape strand asymmetry is essential for comprehensive knowledge of genome evolution, demographical population history and accurate phylogenetic inference. Pre...

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Main Authors: Shu-Jun Wei, Min Shi, Xue-Xin Chen, Michael J Sharkey, Cornelis van Achterberg, Gong-Yin Ye, Jun-Hua He
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-09-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0012708
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