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Dynamic microsatellites in transcribed regions of gastropod mitochondrial 16S rDNA
1Abteilung Okologie & Evolution, J.W. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Pfenninger@zoology.uni-frankfurt.de
Genome
|May 9, 2001
Abstract:
Length variations of repetitive sequences in different AT-rich loop-coding regions of mitochondrial 16S rDNA in two gastropod species were discovered during intraspecific haplotype surveys. Examination of the discrete length variation of the basic repeat unit in a phylogenetic framework led to the conclusion of a microsatellite-like mutational dynamic. The observations suggest that the presence of a repetitive sequence structure alone is sufficient to trigger this dynamic.