Evolution of gastropod mitochondrial genome arrangements

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Gastropod mitochondrial genomes exhibit an unusually great variety of gene orders compared to other metazoan mitochondrial genome such as e.g those of vertebrates. Hence, gastropod mitochondrial genomes constitute a good model system...

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Main Authors: Zardoya Rafael, Templado José, Grande Cristina
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2008-02-01
Series:BMC Evolutionary Biology
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/8/61