| Literature DB >> 26711887 |
Ruslan Deviatiiarov1,2, Takahiro Kikawada3, Oleg Gusev1,2,4.
Abstract
In this work, we describe a complete mitochondrial genome of chironomid Polypedilum vanderplanki. In spite of unique ecology of this species, the larvae are able to survive years of complete desiccation; the circular mitochondrial genome keeps basic structure and consists of 13 protein-coding genes, 2 rRNA, and 22 tRNA genes, and has a total length of 16 060 bp. Low GC level, small regulatory region, and unusually high number and length of non-coding spacers are the main determined features.Entities:
Keywords: Anhydrobiosis; desiccation resistance; mitochondrial genome; sleeping chironomid
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Year: 2015 PMID: 26711887 DOI: 10.3109/19401736.2015.1115849
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Mitochondrial DNA A DNA Mapp Seq Anal ISSN: 2470-1394 Impact factor: 1.514