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Molecular Biology and Evolution, Vol 14, 814-822, Copyright © 1997 by Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution

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Nucleotide sequence divergence in the A+T-rich region of mitochondrial DNA in Drosophila simulans and Drosophila mauritiana

K Inohira, T Hara and ET Matsuura
Department of Biology, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, Japan.

We have determined the nucleotide sequences of two regions within the A+T-rich region of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) in the siIII type of Drosophila simulans and the maI type of D. mauritiana. The sequences of the two regions in siIII and maI are almost identical. The sequences include elements corresponding to the type I and type II repeats elements and the T-stretches as reported in D. melanogaster; an approximately 340-bp region (A region) adjacent to the tRNA(Ile) gene includes a part of the type II repeat element, and an approximately 440- bp region (B region) includes a central portion of the A+T-rich region between the type I and type II repeat arrays. Each sequence of the two species was compared with those of D. melanogaster and D. yakuba. The sequences of the A region are relatively well conserved among the four species. The alignment of the two sequences of the B region with those of D. melanogaster and D. yakuba requires numerous insertions/deletions. For both regions, nucleotide differences between D. simulans or D. mauritiana and D. melanogaster are similar to those between the two and D. yakuba. The tendency is obvious in a subregion within the type II repeat element in the A region. These findings suggest that the rate of nucleotide substitution in the subregion is accelerated in the lineage leading to D. melanogaster. Loss of functional constraint in the stem-loop-forming sequence is proposed for this acceleration.
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