Molecular Biology and Evolution 18:2127-2131 (2001)
© 2001 Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution
Recombination in Animal Mitochondrial DNA: Evidence from Published Sequences
Department of Biology, University of Crete, Greece; and Institute of Marine Biology of Crete, Iraklio Crete, Greece
The question of whether animal mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) undergoes recombination has recently been the subject of intense debate. In a recent paper (Ladoukakis and Zouros 2001)
, we presented evidence for mtDNA recombination from direct recovery of recombinant molecules in the gonads of several males of the mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis. Because in this species there exist two lineages of mitochondrial genomes, each with a different mode of transmission (a phenomenon known as doubly uniparental inheritance [DUI] of mtDNA; Zouros et al. 1994
), the possibility existed that mtDNA recombination was a peculiarity of DUI. Here, we present evidence for recombination in three different species with standard maternal mtDNA inheritance: a crustacean, an amphibian, and a mammal.
Our initial objective was to apply the method of Awadalla, Eyre-Walker, and Maynard Smith (1999)
to cases drawn from the literature. We used the study by Meyran, Gielly, and Taberlet (1998)
of a segment
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