MBE Advance Access originally published online on January 12, 2005
Molecular Biology and Evolution 2005 22(4):952-967; doi:10.1093/molbev/msi079
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The Complete Maternal and Paternal Mitochondrial Genomes of the Mediterranean Mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis: Implications for the Doubly Uniparental Inheritance Mode of mtDNA
* Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimioupolis, Athens, Greece; and Department of Biology, University of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
E-mail: grodakis{at}biol.uoa.gr.
The maternal (F) and paternal (M) mitochondrial genomes of the mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis have diverged by about 20% in nucleotide sequence but retained identical gene content and gene arrangement and similar nucleotide composition and codon usage bias. Both lack the ATPase8 subunit gene, have two tRNAs for methionine and a longer open-reading frame for cox3 than seen in other mollusks. Between the F and M genomes, tRNAs are most conserved followed by rRNAs and protein-coding genes, even though the degree of divergence varies considerably among the latter. Divergence at nad3 is exceptionally low most likely because this gene includes the origin of transcription of the lagging strand (OL). Noncoding regions are the least conserved with the notable exception of the central domain of the main control region and a segment of another noncoding region immediately following nad3. The amino acid divergence (14%) of the two genomes is smaller than in two other pairs of conspecific genomes that are available in GenBank, that of the clam Venerupis philippinarum (34%) and of the fresh water mussel Inversidens japanensis (50%), suggesting that doubly uniparental inheritance of mtDNA emerged at different times in the three species or that there has been a relatively recent replacement of the male genome by the female in the Mytilus line. The latter hypothesis is supported from phylogenetic and population studies of Mytilidae. That the M genome contains a full complement of genes with no premature termination codons argues against it being a selfish element that rides with the sperm. It is shorter than the F by 118 bp, which apparently cannot account for the postulated replicative advantage of this genome over the F in male gonads. The high similarity of the two genomes explains why the F genome may assume the role of the M genome, but it does not exclude the possibility that for this to happen some M-specific sequences must be transferred on to the F genome by means of recombination. If such sequences exist they would most likely be located in noncoding regions.
Key Words: Mytilus • mitochondrial genome • maternally or paternally inherited mtDNA
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