Mitogenomics of recombinant mitochondrial genomes of Baltic Sea Mytilus mussels.

ABSTRACT: Recombination in the control region (CR) of Mytilus mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) was originally reported based on the relatively short, sequenced fragments of mitochondrial genomes. Recombination outside the CR has been reported recently with the suggestion that such processes are common in Mytilus. We have fully sequenced a set of 11 different mitochondrial haplotypes representing the high diversity of paternally inherited mitochondrial genomes of Baltic Sea Mytilus mussels, including the haplotype close to the native Mytilus trossulus mitochondrial genome, which was thought to have been entirely eliminated from this population. Phylogenetic and comparative analysis showed that the recombination is limited to the vicinity of the CR in all sequenced genomes. Coding sequence comparison indicat

SUBMITTER: Zbawicka M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4236608 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature