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First comparative insight into the architecture of COI mitochondrial minicircle molecules of dicyemids reveals marked inter-species variation.
Parasitology - 1 Jul 2015
Catalano Sarah R, Whittington Ian D, Donnellan Stephen C, Bertozzi Terry, Gillanders Bronwyn M
Abstract excerpt
Dicyemids, poorly known parasites of benthic cephalopods, are one of the few phyla in which mitochondrial (mt) genome architecture departs from the typical ~16 kb circular metazoan genome. In addition to a putative circular genome, a series of mt minicircles that each comprises the mt encoded units (I-III) of the cytochrome c oxidase complex have been reported. Whether the structure of the mt minicircles is a...
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