Molecular Biology and Evolution, Vol 13, 510-524, Copyright © 1996 by Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution
P Sunnucks and DF Hales
Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) products corresponding to 803 bp of the
cytochrome oxidase subunits I and II region of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA
COI-II) were deduced to consist of multiple haplotypes in three Sitobion
species. We investigated the molecular basis of these observations. PCR
products were cloned, and six clones from one individual per species were
sequenced. In each individual, one sequence was found commonly, but also
two or three divergent sequences were seen. The divergent sequences were
shown to be nonmitochondrial by sequencing from purified mtDNA and Southern
blotting experiments. All seven nonmitochondrial clones sequenced to
completion were unique. Nonmitochondrial sequences have a high proportion
of unique sites, and very few characters are shared between
nonmitochondrial clones to the exclusion of mtDNA. From these data, we
infer that fragments of mtDNA have been transposed separately (probably
into aphid chromosomes), at a frequency only known to be equalled in
humans. The transposition phenomenon appears to occur infrequently or not
at all in closely related genera and other aphids investigated. Patterns of
nucleotide substitution in mtDNA inferred over a parsimony tree are very
different from those in transposed sequences. Compared with mtDNA,
nonmitochondrial sequences have less codon position bias, more even
exchanges between A, G, C and T, and a higher proportion of nonsynonymous
replacements. Although these data are consistent with the transposed
sequences being under less constraint than mtDNA, changes in the
nonmitochondrial sequences are not random: there remains significant
position bias, and probable excesses of synonymous replacements and of
conservative inferred amino acid replacements. We conclude that a
proportion of the inferred change in the nonmitochondrial sequences
occurred before transposition. We believe that Sitobion aphids (and other
species exhibiting mtDNA transposition) may be important for studying the
molecular evolution of mtDNA and pseudogenes. However, our data highlight
the need to establish the true evolutionary relationships between sequences
in comparative investigations.
ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Numerous transposed sequences of mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase I-II in aphids of the genus Sitobion (Hemiptera: Aphididae)
School of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney. psunnuck@rna.bio.mq.edu.au
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