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Novel Sequence Discovery by Subtractive Genomics
Published on: January 25, 2019
Mitochondrial genome sequence of Unionicola parkeri (Acari: Trombidiformes: Unionicolidae): molecular synapomorphies
Dale D Edwards1, Lesley E Jackson, Amy J Johnson
1Department of Biology, University of Evansville, Evansville, IN 47722, USA.
Abstract:
The mitochondrial genome of Unionicola parkeri is a 14,734 bp circular DNA molecule. The sequence and annotation revealed a unique gene order, related to but distinct from the gene order in the closely related species U. foili. Mitochondrial tRNA sequences annotated in this genome predict non-canonical secondary structures for these molecules. The continuing patterns of unique gene orders and unusual tRNA structures in the Trombidiformes in general and Unionicola in particular support the use of phylogenetic approaches that use these types of molecular features as shared, derived character states. Further progress in using these molecular character states to reconstruct phylogeny will depend on careful annotation, especially of tRNA genes.
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