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Molecular Biology and Evolution 19:1323-1328 (2002)
© 2002 Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution

Ancient Sex-Specific Extension of the Cytochrome c Oxidase II Gene in Bivalves and the Fidelity of Doubly-Uniparental Inheritance

Jason P. Curole and Thomas D. Kocher

Hubbard Center for Genome Studies and Program in Genetics, University of New Hampshire

Bivalves of the families Mytilidae and Unionidae show a unique mode of mitochondrial DNA inheritance called doubly uniparental inheritance. In addition to receiving the maternally transmitted mtDNA lineage, males receive a separate mtDNA genome from their fathers. This system is sometimes compromised, in that female genomes are occasionally recruited into the male cycle of inheritance. These masculinization events are common in the Mytilidae but have not been reported in the Unionidae. In order to estimate the age of the male and the female lineages in the Unionidae and to look for evidence of masculinization, we sequenced the junction between the cytochrome c oxidase II gene and the cytochrome c oxidase I gene. The unionid male and female lineages diverged ~450 MYA. There is no evidence for masculinization during this period, suggesting that there are taxon-specific differences in the rate of masculinization. Coincidentally, a 200-codon extension of the COII gene is present in the male genome of the Unionidae and may be responsible for the absence of masculinization.


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