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Molecular Biology and Evolution 19:127-137 (2002)
© 2002 Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution

The Mitochondrial Genome of the Sipunculid Phascolopsis gouldii Supports Its Association with Annelida Rather than Mollusca

Jeffrey L. Boore and Joseph L. Staton

Department of Biology, University of Michigan;
DOE Joint Genome Institute and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Walnut Creek, California
Belle W. Baruch Institute for Marine Biology and Coastal Research, University of South Carolina

We determined the sequence of about half (7,470 nt) of the mitochondrial genome of the sipunculid Phascolopsis gouldii, the first representative of this phylum to be so studied. All of the 19 identified genes are transcribed from the same DNA strand. The arrangement of these genes is remarkably similar to that of the oligochaete annelid Lumbricus terrestris. Comparison of both the inferred amino acid sequences and the gene arrangements of a variety of diverse metazoan taxa reveals that the phylum Sipuncula is more closely related to Annelida than to Mollusca. This requires reinterpretation of the homology of several embryological features and of patterns of animal body plan evolution.


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