mitochondrial genome

collocation in English

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mitochondrial
adjective
uk
/ˌmaɪ.təˈkɒn.dri.əl/us
/ˌmaɪ.t̬əˈkɑːn.dri.əl/
relating to the small parts of most living cells that contain DNA ...
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genome
noun[C]
uk
/ˈdʒiː.nəʊm/us
/ˈdʒiː.noʊm/
the complete set of genetic material of a human, animal, plant, or other ...
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The two mitochondrial genes sequenced are physically linked in themitochondrialgenomeand were treated as one set of characters.
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Additionally, we would predict that social signals, such as vocal dialects, evolve much faster than themitochondrialgenome.
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Then, in the 1980s, attention turned to themitochondrialgenome.
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The rest of the nucleotide sequence of themitochondrialgenomeof tick species has been ignored.
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In cases where more than one completemitochondrialgenomesequence was established as 'reference ', all these were analysed.
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A compositional segmentation of the humanmitochondrialgenomeis related to heterogeneities in the guanine mutation rate.
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The pedigree rate of sequence divergence in the humanmitochondrialgenome: there is a difference between phylogenetic and pedigree rates.
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Transient activation of mitochondrial translation regulates the expression of themitochondrialgenomeduring mammalian mitochondrial differentiation.
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These findings further confirm the congruence of the data given by the nuclear and themitochondrialgenome.
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The inheritance of themitochondrialgenomeis not governed by the same rules as those for the nuclear genome.
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Because themitochondrialgenomeis maternally inherited and its effective population size is one quarter that of the nuclear genome, it is more subjected to random processes.
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Molecular analysis has shown that in these mutants a noncoding region of themitochondrialgenomeexcises from its original location and undergoes tandem amplification, forming a petitemitochondrialgenome.
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Ascorbic acid protects themitochondrialgenomeand membrane.
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A complete genome sequence from the mitochondria of this species has been available since 2004: themitochondrialgenomesequence has 13670 nucleotides.
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The ichthyosporeanmitochondrialgenomeis 200 kilobase pairs in length and consists of several hundred linear chromosomes that share elaborate terminal-specific sequence patterns.
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Mitochondria possess their own ribosomes responsible for the synthesis of a small number of proteins encoded by themitochondrialgenome.
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In animals themitochondrialgenomeis typically a single circular chromosome that is approximately 16 kb long and has 37 genes.
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The exact number of genes encoded by the nucleus and themitochondrialgenomediffers between species.
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Approximately 84% of themitochondrialgenomeare the structural genes.
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