Publication Type: | Journal Article |
Year of Publication: | 2014 |
Authors: | W. -ge Dong, Song, S., Guo, X. -guo, Jin, D. -chao, Yang, Q., Barker, S. C., Shao, R. |
Journal: | BMC Genomics |
Volume: | 15 |
Issue: | 751 |
Pagination: | 13 pp |
Date Published: | Sept-2014 |
ISSN: | 1471-2164 |
Keywords: | Chromosome evolution, genome fragmentation, minichromosome, Mitochondrial genome, sucking lice |
Abstract: | Background: The suborder Anoplura contains 540 species of blood-sucking lice that parasitize over 840 species of eutherian mammals. Fragmented mitochondrial (mt) genomes have been found in the lice of humans, pigs, horses and rats from four families: Pediculidae, Pthiridae, Haematopinidae and Polyplacidae. These lice, eight species in total, are from the same major clade of the Anoplura. The mt genomes of these lice consist of 9–20 minichromosomes; each minichromosome is 1.5–4 kb in size and has 1–8 genes. To understand mt genome fragmentation in the other major clade of the Anoplura, we sequenced the mt genomes of two species of rodent lice in the genus Hoplopleura (family Hoplopleuridae). |
URL: | http://bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2164-15-751 |
DOI: | 10.1186/1471-2164-15-751 |
Short Title: | BMC GenomicsBMC Genomics |
Fragmented mitochondrial genomes are present in both major clades of the blood-sucking lice (suborder Anoplura): evidence from two Hoplopleura rodent lice (family Hoplopleuridae)
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