| Literature DB >> 25391846 |
Dirk Erpenbeck1, Ratih Aryasari, John N A Hooper, Gert Wörheide.
Abstract
We discovered for the first time a mitochondrial intron in a non-tetillid demosponge, which sheds new light on the interpretation of mitochondrial intron evolution among non-bilaterian animals and has consequences for phylogenetic and DNA barcoding studies. The newly discovered class 1 intron of Aplysinella rhax (Verongida) CO1 has an ORF for a putative LAGLIDADG-type and resembles other sponge and cnidarian mitochondrial introns. Our analysis of the Aplysinella rhax intron underlines that the patchy distribution of introns in sponges is caused by a combination of horizontal and vertical transmission. Further implications for CO1 phylogenetic and barcoding projects are discussed.Entities:
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Year: 2014 PMID: 25391846 DOI: 10.1007/s00239-014-9653-9
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Mol Evol ISSN: 0022-2844 Impact factor: 2.395