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If you use information from the database, please cite:

Jameson, D., Gibson, A.P., Hudelot, C. & Higgs, P.G. (2003) OGRe: a relational database for comparative analysis of mitochondrial genomes. Nucl. Acids. Res. 31, 202-206.

Other papers from our group making use of information in OGRe:

Jow, H., Hudelot, C., Rattray, M. & Higgs, P.G. (2002) Bayesian phylogenetics using an RNA substitution model applied to early mammalian evolution. Mol. Biol. Evol. 19, 1591-1601.

Hudelot, C., Gowri-Shankar, V., Jow, H., Rattray, M. & Higgs, P.G. (2003) RNA-based Phylogenetic Methods: Application to Mammalian Mitochondrial RNA Sequences. Mol. Phyl. Evol. 28, 241-252.

Higgs, P.G., Jameson, D., Jow, H. & Rattray, M. (2003) The evolution of tRNA-Leucine genes in animal mitochondrial genomes. J. Mol. Evol. 57, 435-445.

Gibson, A. Gowri-Shankar, V., Higgs, P.G. & Rattray, M. (2005) A comprehensive analysis of mammalian mitochondrial genome base composition and improved phylogenetic methods. Mol. Evol. 22, 251-264.

Urbina, D., Tang, B. & Higgs, P.G. (2006) The response of amino acid frequencies to directional mutational pressure in mitochondrial genome sequencees is related to the physical properties of the amino acids and to the structure of the genetic code. J.Mol.Evol. 62, 340-361.

Xu, W., Jameson, D., Tang, B., Higgs, P.G.(2006) The relationship between the rate of molecular evolution and the rate of genome rearrangement in animal mitochondrial genomes. J.Mol. Evol. (in press)