Author(s):
Gomes-dos-Santos, André ; Froufe, Elsa ; Amaro, Rafaela ; Ondina, Paz ; Breton, Sophie ; Guerra, Davide ; Aldridge, David C. ; Bolotov, Ivan N. ; Vikhrev, Ilya V. ; Gan, Han Ming ; Goncalves, Duarte, V ; Bogan, Arthur E. ; Sousa, Ronaldo Gomes ; Stewart, Donald ; Teixeira, Amilcar ; Varandas, Simone ; Zanatta, David ; Lopes-Lima, Manuel
Date: 2019
Persistent ID: https://hdl.handle.net/1822/72347
Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
Subject(s): Doubly uniparental inheritance; mitogenome; Unionida; Ciências Naturais::Ciências Biológicas
Description
The complete mitogenomes of one (M-)ale (North America), one Hermaphroditic (Europe), and two (F-)emale (North America and Europe) individuals of the freshwater pearl mussel Margaritifera margaritifera were sequenced. The M-type and F-type (Female and Hermaphroditic) mitogenomes have 17,421 and 16,122 nucleotides, respectively. All with the same content: 13 protein-coding genes, 22 transfer RNA, two ribosomal RNA genes, and one sex-related ORF. The M-type is highly divergent (37.6% uncorrected p-distance) from the F-type mitogenomes. North American and European F-type mitogenomes exhibit low genetic divergence (68 nt substitutions), and the Female and Hermaphroditic European mitogenomes are almost identical, and matching sex-related ORFs.
