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タイトル
  • en Mitochondrial genome deletions and minicircles are common in lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera)
作成者
    • en Cameron, Stephen L
    • en Mizukoshi, Atsushi
    • en Whiting, Michael F
    • en Johnson, Kevin P
アクセス権 open access
権利情報
主題
  • NDC 460
内容注記
  • Abstract en Background: The gene composition, gene order and structure of the mitochondrial genome are remarkably stable across bilaterian animals. Lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera) are a major exception to this genomic stability in that the canonical single chromosome with 37 genes found in almost all other bilaterians has been lost in multiple lineages in favour of multiple, minicircular chromosomes with less than 37 genes on each chromosome. Results: Minicircular mt genomes are found in six of the ten louse species examined to date and three types of minicircles were identified: heteroplasmic minicircles which coexist with full sized mt genomes (type 1); multigene chromosomes with short, simple control regions, we infer that the genome consists of several such chromosomes (type 2); and multiple, single to three gene chromosomes with large, complex control regions (type 3). Mapping minicircle types onto a phylogenetic tree of lice fails to show a pattern of their occurrence consistent with an evolutionary series of minicircle types. Analysis of the nuclear-encoded, mitochondrially-targetted genes inferred from the body louse, Pediculus, suggests that the loss of mitochondrial single-stranded binding protein (mtSSB) may be responsible for the presence of minicircles in at least species with the most derived type 3 minicircles (Pediculus, Damalinia). Conclusions: Minicircular mt genomes are common in lice and appear to have arisen multiple times within the group. Life history adaptive explanations which attribute minicircular mt genomes in lice to the adoption of bloodfeeding in the Anoplura are not supported by this expanded data set as minicircles are found in multiple nonblood feeding louse groups but are not found in the blood-feeding genus Heterodoxus. In contrast, a mechanist explanation based on the loss of mtSSB suggests that minicircles may be selectively favoured due to the incapacity of the mt replisome to synthesize long replicative products without mtSSB and thus the loss of this gene lead to the formation of minicircles in lice.
出版者 en BioMed Central
日付
    Issued2011
言語
  • eng
資源タイプ journal article
出版タイプ VoR
資源識別子 HDL http://hdl.handle.net/2115/47517
関連
  • isIdenticalTo DOI https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-12-394
収録誌情報
    • PISSN 1471-2164
      • en BMC Genomics
      • 12 1 開始ページ394
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