title: Complete mitochondrial genome of the giant African snail, Achatina fulica (Mollusca: Achatinidae): a novel location of putative control regions (CR) in the mitogenome within Pulmonate species.
abstract: The whole sequence (15,057 bp) of the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) of the terrestrial snail Achatina fulica (order Stylommatophora) was determined. The mitogenome, as the typical metazoan mtDNA, contains 13 protein-coding genes (PCG), 2 ribosomal RNA genes (rRNA) and 22 transfer RNA genes (tRNA). The tRNA genes include two trnS without standard secondary structure. Interestingly, among the known mitogenomes of Pulmonata species, we firstly characterized an unassigned lengthy sequence (551 bp) between the cox1 and the trnV which may be the CR for the sake of its AT bases usage bias (65.70%) and potential hairpin structure.
authors: a State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Key Laboratory of Biodiversity Dynamicsand Conservation of Guangdong Higher Education Institutes and Center for Parasitic Organisms , School of Life Sciences, SunYat-sen University , Guangzhou , P. R. China and.
authors: Zhang-Ping
authors: ZP
authors: He
authors: a State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Key Laboratory of Biodiversity Dynamicsand Conservation of Guangdong Higher Education Institutes and Center for Parasitic Organisms , School of Life Sciences, SunYat-sen University , Guangzhou , P. R. China and.
authors: Xia-Bin
authors: XB
authors: Dai
authors: a State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Key Laboratory of Biodiversity Dynamicsand Conservation of Guangdong Higher Education Institutes and Center for Parasitic Organisms , School of Life Sciences, SunYat-sen University , Guangzhou , P. R. China and.
authors: Shuai
authors: S
authors: Zhang
authors: a State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Key Laboratory of Biodiversity Dynamicsand Conservation of Guangdong Higher Education Institutes and Center for Parasitic Organisms , School of Life Sciences, SunYat-sen University , Guangzhou , P. R. China and.
authors: Ting-Ting
authors: TT
authors: Zhi
authors: a State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Key Laboratory of Biodiversity Dynamicsand Conservation of Guangdong Higher Education Institutes and Center for Parasitic Organisms , School of Life Sciences, SunYat-sen University , Guangzhou , P. R. China and.
authors: Zhao-Rong
authors: ZR
authors: Lun
authors: b Key Laboratory for Tropical Diseases Control , the Ministry of Education of China, and Department of Parasitology, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-Sen University , Guangzhou , China.
authors: Zhong-Dao
authors: ZD
authors: Wu
authors: a State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Key Laboratory of Biodiversity Dynamicsand Conservation of Guangdong Higher Education Institutes and Center for Parasitic Organisms , School of Life Sciences, SunYat-sen University , Guangzhou , P. R. China and.
authors: Ting-Bao
authors: TB
authors: Yang
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial / Q000235:genetics*; D054629:Genome, Mitochondrial / Q000502:physiology*; D024101:Mitochondrial Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009690:Nucleic Acid Conformation; D012313:RNA / Q000235:genetics; D000077278:RNA, Mitochondrial; D012335:RNA, Ribosomal / Q000235:genetics; D012343:RNA, Transfer / Q000235:genetics; D012908:Snails / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial; D024101:Mitochondrial Proteins; D000077278:RNA, Mitochondrial; D012335:RNA, Ribosomal; D012313:RNA; D012343:RNA, Transfer
keywords: Achatina fulica; mitogenome; novel location of control regions; pulmonata