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"Tandem duplication-random loss" is not a real feature of oyster mitochondrial genomes.
BMC genomics - 19 Feb 2009
Ren Jianfeng, Liu Xiao, Zhang Guofan, Liu Bin, Guo Ximing
Abstract excerpt
Duplications and rearrangements of coding genes are major themes in the evolution of mitochondrial genomes, bearing important consequences in the function of mitochondria and the fitness of organisms. Yu et al. (BMC Genomics 2008, 9:477) reported the complete mt genome sequence of the oyster Crassostrea hongkongensis (16,475 bp) and found that a DNA segment containing four tRNA genes (trnK(1), trnC, trnQ(1) and...
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