Significant Levels of Sequence Divergence and Gene Rearrangements have Occurred Between the Mitochondrial Genomes of the Wild Mulberry Silkmoth, Bombyx mandarina, and its Close Relative, the Domesticated Silkmoth, Bombyx mori

Kenji Yukuhiro; Hideki Sezutsu; Masanobu Itoh; Koichi Shimizu; Yutaka Banno

doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a004200

Significant Levels of Sequence Divergence and Gene Rearrangements have Occurred Between the Mitochondrial Genomes of the Wild Mulberry Silkmoth, Bombyx mandarina, and its Close Relative, the Domesticated Silkmoth, Bombyx mori

Kenji Yukuhiro(Institute of Agrobiological Sciences), Hideki Sezutsu(Kyoto Institute of Technology), Masanobu Itoh, Koichi Shimizu, Yutaka Banno(Kyushu University)

Molecular Biology and Evolution

August 1, 2002

10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a004200

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Abstract

The metazoan mitochondrial (mt) genome is typically a circular, double-stranded DNA molecule between 14 and 18 kb in size. This molecule encodes 37 genes: 13 protein genes, 2 ribosomal RNA genes, and 22 tRNA genes (Wolstenholme 1992). The order of these genes varies among metazoans (Boore 1999).

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