Sessile snails, dynamic genomes: gene rearrangements within the mitochondrial genome of a family of caenogastropod molluscs

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Widespread sampling of vertebrates, which comprise the majority of published animal mitochondrial genomes, has led to the view that mitochondrial gene rearrangements are relatively rare, and that gene orders are typically stable acro...

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Main Authors: Bieler Rüdiger, MacInnis Martin J, Rawlings Timothy A, Boore Jeffrey L, Collins Timothy M
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2010-07-01
Series:BMC Genomics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/11/440