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Molecular Biology and Evolution 19:2313-2317 (2002)
© 2002 Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution

The Complete Sequence of the Mitochondrial Genome of the Honeybee Ectoparasite Mite Varroa destructor (Acari: Mesostigmata)

Maria Navajas*,1, Y. Le Conte{dagger}, M. Solignac{ddagger}, S. Cros-Arteil* and J.-M. Cornuet*

*Centre de Biologie et Gestion de Populations, Campus International de Baillarguet, Montferrier, France;
{dagger}UMR UAPV, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Avignon cedex, France;
{ddagger}Laboratoire Populations, Génétique et Evolution, CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

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Complete mitochondrial genome sequences are now available for 28 Arthropoda (see references at: http://www.jgi.doe.gov/programs/comparative/Mito_top_level.html), more than for any other invertebrate phylum. As in other metazoans, the mtDNA genome is circular and contains 37 genes: 22 for transfer RNAs (tRNA), 2 for rRNAs (rrnL and rrnS), and 13 for protein subunits (Wolstenholme 1992Citation ). There is also one major noncoding region which is thought to play a role in the initiation of transcription or replication (or both) of the DNA molecule (Goddard and Wolstenholme 1978Citation ).

Apart from tRNA genes, whose relative positions in the mitochondrial genome vary (Boore 1999Citation ), gene order has been long conserved in some lineages of Arthropoda. The arrangement found in most studied insects, for instance, differs from that of the chelicerate Limulus polyphemus by the location of only one tRNA (Staton, Daehler, and Brown 1997Citation ; Lavrov, Boore, and Brown 2000Citation ). . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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