Genes & Genetic Systems
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Complete nucleotide sequence of the A+T-rich region of Drosophila mauritiana mitochondrial DNA
Kanako SugiharaRyoko YuiYoko IbaragiEtsuko T. Matsuura
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2006 年 81 巻 1 号 p. 21-28

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We determined the complete nucleotide sequence of the A+T-rich region of the maII type of mtDNA in D. mauritiana. The nucleotide sequence was found to contain 3,206 bp. Three types of conserved element, i.e., type I element, type II element, and T-stretch, were included in this sequence, as reported for D. melanogaster. Comparison between the two species revealed that the type I elements were less conserved than the type II elements. However, each of these type I elements contained a G-stretch within a loop of a putative stem-loop-forming sequence, which has also been observed in D. melanogaster. Moreover, in both type I and type II repeat arrays, the elements closest to the T-stretch diverged the most, due to nucleotide substitution and/or the insertion of short repeats. Sequence comparison of the two complete sequences of the A+T-rich region of D. melanogaster and the maII type of D. mauritiana, as well as comparison of partial sequences in other types of mtDNA within the melanogaster complex, suggested that the A+T-rich region in this complex has been maintained by concerted evolution after the duplication of two types of element, i.e., type I and type II.
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