Journal
GENE
Volume 605, Issue -, Pages 43-53Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2016.12.024
Keywords
Sabellida; High-throughput sequencing; Mitogenome; Sequence evolution; Gene length evolution; Gene order
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- Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
- National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq, Brazil)
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Here we describe, for the first time, the mitochondrial genome of Spirobranchus giganteus (Annelida: Serpulidae) and compare it with all available annelid mitogenomes. The entire mitogenome has 22,058 bp in length and bears 12 protein-coding genes (the ATP8 gene is missing), two rRNA, and 24 tRNA genes. The nucleotide composition and GC-skew are surprisingly different from those reported for other annelids. In addition, the pairwise genetic distances between the mitogenomes of S. giganteus and other annelids are higher than the distances for all annelid taxa analyzed. This result is consistent with a faster rate of mitochondrial sequence evolution in S. giganteus, which may explain the difficulty in obtaining PCR products with the available primers. The mitochondrial gene order of S. giganteus was remarkably different not only from that of the Sedentaria lineage, which includes S. giganteus, but also from the mitochondrial gene order of other major annelid lineages. The mitogenome of S. giganteus has no repetitive motifs despite its long control region (4769 bp), but genes are shorter and have a lower AT content than other members of Annelida. Finally, we show that mitochondria( gene order rearrangements can directly correlate to variations in gene length. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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