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Mitochondrial Genomes of Three Melampus Species (Ellobiidae; Gastropoda)
Thomas Inäbnit1, Ralph Tiedemann1, Alice B Dennis1,2
1Unit of Evolutionary Biology/Systematic Zoology Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam Potsdam Germany.
Abstract:
Melampus bidentatus was recently divided into three genetically divergent cryptic species: Melampus bidentatus, Melampus jaumei, and Melampus gundlachi. We have assembled and annotated a mitochondrial genome for each of these species. Comparisons with other taxa showed that these three species possess a gene order that is distinct from the conserved gene order found in the six (out of nine available) Ellobiid genera. Among the species with a derived gene order, mean nucleotide divergence over all genes was on average 1.57× higher than among mitogenomes with the conserved gene order. This suggests varying evolutionary rates of mitochondrial genes in this family.
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