title: The CO-I and CO-II region of honeybee mitochondrial DNA: evidence for variation in insect mitochondrial evolutionary rates.
abstract: The sequence of a region of honeybee (Apis mellifera ligustica) mitochondrial DNA, which contains the genes for cytochrome c oxidase subunits I and II (CO-I and CO-II) and inferred genes for tRNA(Asp), tRNA(Leu)UUR, tRNA(Lys), and tRNA(Trp), is presented. The region includes the segment previously identified as incurring a length increase in some other bee strains, including Africanized bees. The sequence information of this study and of that by Vlasak et al. shows that several shifts of tRNA genes have occurred between Apis and Drosophila, but shifts of other kinds of genes have yet to be demonstrated. The CO-I and CO-II gene sequences are both more A+T rich than are the corresponding Drosophila genes. Parsimony analyses using the mouse and Xenopus sequences as outgroups show significantly more amino acid substitutions on the branch to Apis (120) than on that to Drosophila (44), indicating a difference in the long-term evolutionary rates of hymenopteran and dipteran mtDNA.
authors.affiliation: School of Biological Science, University of New South Wales, Kensington, Australia.
authors.forename: R H
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Crozier
authors.forename: Y C
authors.initials: YC
authors.lastname: Crozier
authors.forename: A G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Mackinlay
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D001516:Bees / Q000235:genetics*; D005075:Biological Evolution; D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial / Q000235:genetics*; D003576:Electron Transport Complex IV / Q000235:genetics*; D005796:Genes; D014644:Genetic Variation; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009690:Nucleic Acid Conformation; D012349:RNA, Transfer, Asp / Q000235:genetics; D012356:RNA, Transfer, Leu / Q000235:genetics; D012364:RNA, Transfer, Trp / Q000235:genetics; D015183:Restriction Mapping; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
chemical_list: D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial; D012349:RNA, Transfer, Asp; D012356:RNA, Transfer, Leu; D012364:RNA, Transfer, Trp; D003576:Electron Transport Complex IV