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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
卷 38, 期 3, 页码 981-985出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msaa262
关键词
mitochondrial phylogeny; Asteroidea; mitochondrial gene evolution; mitochondrial gene order; Echinodermata; translation table
资金
- National Research Foundation, Prime Minister's Office, Singapore under its Marine Science RD Programme [MSRDP-P03]
The mitochondrial genetic code in invertebrates is more diverse than the standard genetic code, with the identification of new initiation codons in sea stars. Gene order among asteroids, echinoids, and holothuroids is remarkably conserved, with few changes over 500 million years of echinoderm evolution.
The mitochondrial genetic code is much more varied than the standard genetic code. The invertebrate mitochondrial code, for instance, comprises six initiation codons, including five alternative start codons. However, only two initiation codons are known in the echinoderm and flatworm mitochondrial code, the canonical ATG and alternative GTG. Here, we analyzed 23 Asteroidea mitogenomes, including ten newly sequenced species and unambiguously identified at least two other start codons, ATT and ATC, both of which also initiate translation of mitochondrial genes in other invertebrates. These findings underscore the diversity of the genetic code and expand upon the suite of initiation codons among echinoderms to avoid erroneous annotations. Our analyses have also uncovered the remarkable conservation of gene order among asteroids, echinoids, and holothuroids, with only an interchange between two gene positions in asteroids over similar to 500 Ma of echinoderm evolution.
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