The mitochondrial genome of the entomophagous endoparasite Xenos vesparum (Insecta: Strepsiptera)
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The mitochondrial genome of the entomophagous endoparasite Xenos vesparum (Insecta: Strepsiptera).
In this study, the nearly complete sequence (14,519 bp) of the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) of the entomophagous endoparasite Xenos vesparum (Insecta: Strepsiptera) is described. All protein coding genes (PCGs) are in the arrangement known to be ancestral for insects, but three tRNA genes (trnA, trnS(gcu), and trnL(uag)) have transposed to derived positions and there are three tandem copies of trn...
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عنوان ژورنال: Gene
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0378-1119
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2006.04.005