title: Complete mitochondrial genomes of the anadromous and resident forms of the lamprey Lethenteron camtschaticum.
abstract: The complete mitochondrial genomes were sequenced in anadromous and resident forms of the lamprey Lethenteron camtschaticum. The sizes of the genomes in the two isolates are 16,245 and 16,295 bp. The gene arrangement, base composition, and size of the two sequenced genomes are similar to the lamprey genomes previously published. The total sequence divergence between the two genomes is very low (0.14%), supporting conspecificity of the anadromous and resident forms of L. camtschaticum. Comparison of the genomes sequenced in the present work with other genomes of lampreys available in GenBank, reveals two distinct evolutionary lineages with a genera level of divergence among the lampreys of eastern Eurasia.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology , University of California , Irvine , CA , USA and.|b A. V. Zhirmunsky Institute of Marine Biology, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Science , Vladivostok , Russia.
authors.forename: Evgeniy S
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Balakirev
authors.affiliation: b A. V. Zhirmunsky Institute of Marine Biology, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Science , Vladivostok , Russia.
authors.forename: Valery A
authors.initials: VA
authors.lastname: Parensky
authors.affiliation: a Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology , University of California , Irvine , CA , USA and.
authors.forename: Francisco J
authors.initials: FJ
authors.lastname: Ayala
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial / Q000235:genetics; D050259:Genes, Mitochondrial; D054629:Genome, Mitochondrial; D007798:Lampreys / Q000235:genetics*; D010802:Phylogeny
chemical_list: D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial
keywords: Anadromous and resident forms; Lampetra; complete mitochondrial genome; lethenteron; lethenteron camtschaticum; northern hemisphere lampreys