Unusually long palindromes are abundant in mitochondrial control regions of insects and nematodes.

BACKGROUND: Palindromes are known to be involved in a variety of biological processes. In the present investigation we carried out a comprehensive analysis of palindromes in the mitochondrial control regions (CRs) of several animal groups to study their frequency, distribution and architecture to ga...

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Main Authors: K P Arunkumar, Javaregowda Nagaraju
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2006-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1762429?pdf=render