title: Sequence amplification and gene rearrangement in parasitic nematode mitochondrial DNA.
abstract: The nematode Romanomermis culicivorax, an obligate mosquito parasite, possesses a 26 kilobase (kb) mitochondrial genome. The unusually large size is due to transcriptionally active DNA sequences present as 3.0 kb direct tandem repeats and as inverted portions of the repeating unit located elsewhere in the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). The genome rearrangements involved in establishing this unusual sequence organization may have dramatically altered conventional mitochondrial gene order. Genes for subunits of the cytochrome c oxidase complex (COI and COII) are normally closely linked in animal mtDNAs, but are separated by approximately 8 kb in this mitochondrial genome.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, University of California, Riverside 92521.
authors.forename: B C
authors.initials: BC
authors.lastname: Hyman
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Beck
authors.forename: K C
authors.initials: KC
authors.lastname: Weiss
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial / Q000235:genetics*; D003720:Densitometry; D003576:Electron Transport Complex IV / Q000235:genetics; D015321:Gene Rearrangement; D008040:Genetic Linkage; D008632:Mermithoidea / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics*; D009693:Nucleic Acid Hybridization; D012091:Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid; D015183:Restriction Mapping; D014158:Transcription, Genetic
chemical_list: D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial; D003576:Electron Transport Complex IV