BMC Evolutionary Biology

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Comparative mitochondrial genomics of snakes: extraordinary substitution rate dynamics and functionality of the duplicate control region

Zhi J Jiang1,2, Todd A Castoe3,4, Christopher C Austin5, Frank T Burbrink1,6, Matthew D Herron3,7, Jimmy A McGuire5,8, Christopher L Parkinson3 and David D Pollock9*

Author Affiliations

1 Department of Biological Sciences, Biological Computation and Visualization Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA

2 Computational Biology, Scripps Florida, Jupiter, FL, USA

3 Department of Biology, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA

4 Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Aurora, CO, USA

5 Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA

6 Department of Biology, City University of New York, Staten Island, USA

7 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

8 Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA

9 Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Aurora, CO, USA

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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:123 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-7-123

Published: 26 July 2007

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Laboratory and genome annotation methods.

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Comparison of gene lengths in snakes and other squamates.

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