Bourlat, SJ;
Rota-Stabelli, O;
Lanfear, R;
Telford, MJ;
(2009)
The mitochondrial genome structure of Xenoturbella bocki (phylum Xenoturbellida) is ancestral within the deuterostomes.
BMC Evolutionary Biology
, 9
(May 20)
, Article 107. 10.1186/1471-2148-9-107.
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Abstract
Mitochondrial genome comparisons contribute in multiple ways when inferring animal relationships. As well as primary sequence data, rare genomic changes such as gene order, shared gene boundaries and genetic code changes, which are unlikely to have arisen through convergent evolution, are useful tools in resolving deep phylogenies. Xenoturbella bocki is a morphologically simple benthic marine worm recently found to belong among the deuterostomes. Here we present analyses comparing the Xenoturbella bocki mitochondrial gene order, genetic code and control region to those of other metazoan groups.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The mitochondrial genome structure of Xenoturbella bocki (phylum Xenoturbellida) is ancestral within the deuterostomes |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1186/1471-2148-9-107 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-9-107 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | PMCID: PMC2697986 © 2009 Bourlat et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | Animals, Chordata, Nonvertebrate, Chromosome Mapping, DNA, Mitochondrial, Gene Order, Genome, Mitochondrial, Phylogeny, Sequence Alignment, Sequence Analysis, DNA |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences > Genetics, Evolution and Environment |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/79858 |
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