Comparative Analysis of Four Calypogeia Species Revealed Unexpected Change in Evolutionarily-Stable Liverwort Mitogenomes

Liverwort mitogenomes are considered to be evolutionarily stable. A comparative analysis of four species revealed differences compared to previously sequenced liverwort mitogenomes. Such differences involve unexpected structural changes in the two genes, and , which have lost three and two introns,...

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Published in:Genes 2017-12, Vol.8 (12), p.395
Main Authors: Ślipiko, Monika, Myszczyński, Kamil, Buczkowska-Chmielewska, Katarzyna, Bączkiewicz, Alina, Szczecińska, Monika, Sawicki, Jakub
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
ATP1 gene
Calypogeia
Comparative analysis
Gene order
Introns
Marchantiophyta
Mitochondria
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Summary:Liverwort mitogenomes are considered to be evolutionarily stable. A comparative analysis of four species revealed differences compared to previously sequenced liverwort mitogenomes. Such differences involve unexpected structural changes in the two genes, and , which have lost three and two introns, respectively. The group I introns in the gene are proposed to have been lost by two-step localized retroprocessing, whereas one-step retroprocessing could be responsible for the disappearance of the group II introns in the gene. These cases represent the first identified losses of introns in mitogenomes of leafy liverworts (Jungermanniopsida) contrasting the stability of mitochondrial gene order with certain changes in the gene content and intron set in liverworts.
ISSN:2073-4425
2073-4425
DOI:10.3390/genes8120395