Characterization of whole mitochondrial genome Amyda cartilaginea from Dharmasraya, West Sumatera

Phylogeography of the Asian softshell turtle Amyda cartilaginea (Boddaert, 1770): evidence for a species complex

Using up to 2456 bp mtDNA and up to 2716 bp nDNA of fresh samples and short sequences of three mitochondrial genes of historical museum material, we examine the phylogeography of Amyda cartilaginea. This data set provides evidence for the existence of deeply divergent genetic lineages which we interpret as three distinct species, two of which are polytypic. On the Great Sunda Islands, the distr...

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Relaxation of yeast mitochondrial functions after whole-genome duplication.

Mitochondria are essential for cellular energy production in most eukaryotic organisms. However, when glucose is abundant, yeast species that underwent whole-genome duplication (WGD) mostly conduct fermentation even under aerobic conditions, and most can survive without a functional mitochondrial genome. In this study, we show that the rate of evolution for the nuclear-encoded mitochondrial gen...

Normalized Information Distance and Whole Mitochondrial Genome Phylogeny Analysis

A new class of similarity measures aimed at measuring the evolutionary relation of sequences is studied. A prime example is the “normalized information distance”, based on the noncomputable notion of Kolmogorov complexity. We demonstrate that it is a metric, takes values in [0, 1], and is universal. To apply it (and some related metrics) we use a simple approximation scheme to computationally c...

Power and SNP tagging in whole mitochondrial genome association studies.

The application of genetic association studies to detect mitochondrial variants responsible for phenotypic variation has recently been demonstrated. However, the only power estimates currently available are based on the use of mitochondrial haplogroups, which can only tag a small fraction of the common variation in the mitochondrial genome. Here, power estimates are derived for a SNP-based stud...