Journal
MITOCHONDRIAL DNA
Volume 23, Issue 5, Pages 358-360Publisher
INFORMA HEALTHCARE
DOI: 10.3109/19401736.2012.690756
Keywords
Perna viridis; mitochondrial genome; atp8 gene; gene rearrangement; marine mussel
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- National Science Foundation of China [40906077]
- Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences [SQ200804]
- earmarked fund for Modern Agro-industry Technology Research System
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The complete mitochondrial (mt) genome of the Asian green mussel Perna viridis (16,627 bp), an economically important bivalve, was newly sequenced and annotated. P. viridis is the shortest and has a comparatively highest overall A + T content (68%) among six available genomes of marine mussels to date. The atp8 gene's length (49 a.a.) of the green mussel is unexpectedly greatly shorter than that of other marine mussels (87 a.a.). Comparison of the gene order demonstrated that the six marine mussels share no identical gene blocks although they belong to the same family, which indicates that this group should be a good model to study mtDNA evolution and mitochondria inheritance.
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