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Methodology for Accurate Detection of Mitochondrial DNA Methylation
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Mitochondrial DNA from a spider mite: isolation, restriction map and partial sequence of the cytochrome oxidase
D Fournier1, J M Bride, M Navajas
1Laboratoire de Biologie des Invertébrés, INRA, Antibes, France.
Genetica
|January 1, 1994
Abstract:
Mitochondrial (mt) DNA of the phytophagous mite Tetranychus urticae was purified and a restriction map was constructed. The 12.5 kb long genome is the shortest animal mtDNA known. A 564 bp clone comprising part of the gene for cytochrome oxidase subunit I was sequenced. As has been found in insects, the mitochondrial sequences of mites are extremely A+T rich (75% on average, 96.5% at the third codon position).
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