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Nucleic Acids Research, 1988, Vol. 16, No. 14 6515-6529
© 1988

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Genome organization of Artemia mitochondrial DNA

Beatriz Batuecas, Rafael Garesse, Manuel Calleja, José Ramón Valverde and Roberto Marco

Departamento de Bioquímica de la UAM and Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas de CSIC, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid C/Arzobispo Morcillo 4, Madrid 28029, Spain

Received March 5, 1988. To extend to the crustacean class the information concerning the genomic organization of the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) a double strategy has been used: Southern blot analysis with cloned Drosophila mtDNA probes and sequence comparison to the Drosophila mtDNA of the sequenced termini of different subclones along the Artemia mitochondrial genome, probably the smallest mtDNA studied at this level to date. These approaches have allowed us to localize the 16S rRNA gene, two tRNA genes and eleven protein genes. The genome organization is surprisingly similar to the Drosophila mtDNA, with the 16S rRNA and the protein genes located in the same positions and orientations as their Drosophila counterparts. The only changes detected are at the level of tRNA genes, although the position and orientation of some of these are also conserved. These results contrast with the important rearrangements detected among other invertebrates mtDNAs and suggest that the genome organization of the mitochondrial DNA may be more conserved in the arthropods than in other invertebrate phyla.


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