Phylogeography ofTecia solanivorafrom Colombia Based on Cytochrome Oxydase I and Cytochrome b Mitochondrial Genes

2015 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 775-788 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. F. Villanueva-Mejía ◽  
V. Ramírez-Ríos ◽  
R.E. Arango-lsaza ◽  
C. I. Saldamando-Benjumea
Keyword(s):  
Cytochrome B ◽  
Mitochondrial Genes ◽  
Cytochrome Oxydase

scholarly journals Homologous recombination changes the context of Cytochrome b transcription in the mitochondrial genome of Silene vulgaris KRA

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helena Štorchová ◽  
James D. Stone ◽  
Daniel B. Sloan ◽  
Oushadee Abeyawardana ◽  
Karel Müller ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Homologous Recombination ◽  
Mitochondrial Genome ◽  
Rna Editing ◽  
Cytochrome B ◽  
Mitochondrial Genes ◽  
Mitochondrial Genomes ◽  
Silene Vulgaris ◽  
Fertility Restorer ◽  
Restorer Genes ◽  
Fertility Restorer Genes

AbstractBackgroundSilene vulgaris (bladder campion) is a gynodioecious species existing as two genders – male-sterile females and hermaphrodites. Cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) is generally encoded by mitochondrial genes, which interact with nuclear fertility restorer genes. Mitochondrial genomes of this species vary in DNA sequence, gene order and gene content. Multiple CMS genes are expected to exist in S. vulgaris, but little is known about their molecular identity.ResultsWe assembled the complete mitochondrial genome from the haplotype KRA of S. vulgaris. It consists of five chromosomes, two of which recombine with each other. Two small non-recombining chromosomes exist in linear, supercoiled and relaxed circle forms. We compared the mitochondrial transcriptomes from females and hermaphrodites and confirmed the differentially expressed chimeric gene bobt as the strongest CMS candidate gene in S. vulgaris KRA. The chimeric gene bobt is co-transcribed with the Cytochrome b (cob) gene in some genomic configurations. The co-transcription of a CMS factor with an essential gene may constrain transcription inhibition as a mechanism for fertility restoration because of the need to maintain appropriate production of the necessary protein. Homologous recombination places the gene cob outside the control of bobt, which allows for the suppression the CMS gene by the fertility restorer genes. In addition, by analyzing RNA editing, we found the loss of three editing sites in the KRA mitochondrial genome and identified four sites with highly distinct editing rates between KRA and another S. vulgaris haplotypes (KOV). Three of these highly differentially edited sites were located in the transport membrane protein B (mttB) gene. They resulted in differences in MttB protein sequences between haplotypes despite completely identical gene sequences.ConclusionsFrequent homologous recombination events that are widespread in plant mitochondrial genomes may change chromosomal configurations and also the control of gene transcription including CMS gene expression. Posttranscriptional processes, e.g RNA editing shall be evaluated in evolutionary and co-evolutionary studies of mitochondrial genes, because they may change protein composition despite the sequence identity of the respective genes. The investigation of natural populations of wild species such as S. vulgaris are necessary to reveal important aspects of CMS missed in domesticated crops, the traditional focus of the CMS studies.

Molecular phylogeny supports the paraphyletic nature of the genus Trogoderma (Coleoptera: Dermestidae) collected in the Australasian ecozone

2011 ◽  
Vol 102 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.A. Castalanelli ◽  
A.M. Baker ◽  
K.A. Munyard ◽  
M. Grimm ◽  
D.M. Groth
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Phylogeny ◽  
Cytochrome Oxidase ◽  
Cytochrome B ◽  
Common Ancestor ◽  
Nuclear Gene ◽  
Mitochondrial Genes ◽  
Cytochrome Oxidase I ◽  
Recent Common Ancestor ◽  
Most Recent Common Ancestor ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic

AbstractTo date, a molecular phylogenetic approach has not been used to investigate the evolutionary structure of Trogoderma and closely related genera. Using two mitochondrial genes, Cytochrome Oxidase I and Cytochrome B, and the nuclear gene, 18S, the reported polyphyletic positioning of Trogoderma was examined. Paraphyly in Trogoderma was observed, with one Australian Trogoderma species reconciled as sister to all Dermestidae and the Anthrenocerus genus deeply nested within the Australian Trogoderma clade. In addition, time to most recent common ancestor for a number of Dermestidae was calculated. Based on these estimations, the Dermestidae origin exceeded 175 million years, placing the origins of this family in Pangaea.

Mitochondrial sequences do not support the independent taxonomic position of the extinct Alpine newt subspecies Mesotriton alpestris lacusnigri

2011 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 435-440 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martina Lužnik ◽  
Boris Kryštufek ◽  
Elena Varljen Bužan
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
16S Rrna ◽  
Cytochrome B ◽  
Mitochondrial Genes ◽  
Taxonomic Position ◽  
Museum Specimens ◽  
Central European ◽  
Julian Alps ◽  
Mitochondrial Sequences ◽  
Alpine Newt

Abstract Mesotriton alpestris lacusnigri is regarded as being an extinct subspecies of the Alpine newt endemic to a small fishless alpine lake called Črno jezero (Black Lake) in the Julian Alps in Slovenia. To re-assess its taxonomic position we sequenced fragments of two mitochondrial genes (309 bp of cytochrome b and 315 bp of 16S rRNA) of two museum specimens collected in 1953. Specimens of the ssp. lacusnigri yielded two new haplotypes which formed a monophyletic group within a cluster of other Slovenian and central European haplotypes of ssp. alpestis. The name lacusnigri is therefore merely a junior synonym of the nominotypical subspecies and should be removed from red data listing. Our study highlights the outstanding value of natural history collections as baselines for contemporary biodiversity assessments.

Some Observations on Intra-Mitochondrial Crystals

1977 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 406-407
Author(s):  
J. A. Clarke ◽  
D. N. Landon ◽  
P. R. Ward
Keyword(s):  
Cytochrome B ◽  
Mitochondrial Myopathy ◽  
Crystallographic Analysis ◽  
Mitochondrial Membranes ◽  
Electron Microscopes ◽  
Muscle Biopsies

Intra-mitochondrial crystals have been noted in muscle biopsies from patients in a wide variety of diseased states. As far as we are aware, none of these crystals have been subjected to detailed crystallographic analysis. Recently, similar crystals were observed in a biopsy from a patient with a mitochondrial myopathy, characterised by a deficiency in reducible cytochrome b (Morgan-Hughes, J. A., Darveniza, P., Kahn, S. N., Landon, D. N., Sherratt, R. M., Land, J. M. and Clark, J. B., 1977, Brain, In Press). Aldehyde-fixed, osmicated resin imbedded material was examined using Siemens, JEOL and Phillips electron microscopes with goniometer specimen stages. The crystals generally lay between the outer and inner mitochondrial membranes and measured 1 - 3 μm in length and 0.1 - 0.3 μm in width. Characteristically, these crystals revealed specific periodicities.

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