Different mitochondrial gene orders among insects: exchanged tRNA gene positions in the COII/COIII region between an orthopteran and a dipteran species.
We have cloned and sequenced a 2.65 kb segment of the mtDNA molecule of the orthopteran insect Locusta migratoria. It harbors the genes for four mitochondrial tRNAs, for cytochrome c oxidase subunits II and III and for ATPase subunits 6 and 8. The order of the locust genes resembles that of Drosophila yakuba: in both insects the genes for COII and ATPase 8 are separated from each other by the genes encoding tRNA(lys) and tRNA(asp), but in the locust, the positions of the two tRNA genes are reversed. This leads to a different mitochondrial gene order in the two insects.
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Institut für Zoologie III, Universität Düsseldorf, Federal Republic of Germany.
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D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial / Q000235:genetics*; D004330:Drosophila / Q000235:genetics*; D003576:Electron Transport Complex IV / Q000235:genetics*; D005796:Genes; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009987:Orthoptera / Q000235:genetics*; D012343:RNA, Transfer / Q000235:genetics*; D012349:RNA, Transfer, Asp; D012353:RNA, Transfer, Gly; D012356:RNA, Transfer, Leu; D012357:RNA, Transfer, Lys; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial; D012349:RNA, Transfer, Asp; D012353:RNA, Transfer, Gly; D012356:RNA, Transfer, Leu; D012357:RNA, Transfer, Lys; D012343:RNA, Transfer; D003576:Electron Transport Complex IV