Publication Type: | Journal Article |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
Authors: | R. Shao, Barker, S. C., Li, H., Song, S., Poudel, S. Kanta S., Su, Y. |
Journal: | Scientific Reports |
Volume: | 5 |
Issue: | 17389 |
Pagination: | 11pp |
Date Published: | Jun-15-2015 |
Abstract: | Parasitic lice (order Phthiraptera) infest birds and mammals. The typical animal mitochondrial (mt) genome organization, which consists of a single chromosome with 37 genes, was found in chewing lice in the suborders Amblycera and Ischnocera. The sucking lice (suborder Anoplura) known, however, have fragmented mt genomes with 9–20 minichromosomes. We sequenced the mt genome of the elephant louse, Haematomyzus elephantis – the first species of chewing lice investigated from the suborder Rhynchophthirina. We identified 33 mt genes in the elephant louse, which were on |
URL: | http://www.nature.com/articles/srep17389 |
DOI: | 10.1038/srep17389 |
Short Title: | Sci. Rep. |
Fragmented mitochondrial genomes in two suborders of parasitic lice of eutherian mammals (Anoplura and Rhynchophthirina, Insecta)
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