Atp8 is in the ground pattern of flatworm mitochondrial genomes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To date, mitochondrial genomes of more than one hundred flatworms (Platyhelminthes) have been sequenced. They show a high degree of similarity and a strong taxonomic bias towards parasitic lineages. The mitochondrial gene atp8 has not been confidently annotated in any flatworm sequenced to date. However, sampling of free-living flatworm lineages is incomplete. We addressed this by sequencing the mitochondrial genomes of the two small-bodied (about 1 mm in length) free-living flatworms Stenostomum sthenum and Macrostomum lignano as the first representatives of the earliest branching flatworm taxa Catenulida and Macrostomorpha respectively.

Results

We have used high-throughput DNA and RNA sequence data and PCR to establish the mitochondrial genome sequences and gene

SUBMITTER: Egger B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5446695 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature