| widespread atypical mitochondrial dna structure in isopods (crustacea, peracarida) related to a constitutive heteroplasmy in terrestrial species. | metazoan mitochondrial dna (mtdna) is generally composed of circular monomeric molecules. however, a few exceptions do exist and among them two terrestrial isopods armadillidium vulgare and porcellionides pruinosus have an atypical mtdna composed of linear monomers associated with circular "head-to-head" dimers: a very unusual structure for animal mtdna genome. to assess the distribution of this atypical mtdna among isopods, we performed rflp and southern blot analyses on mtdna of 16 terrestrial ... | 2012 | 22376074 |
| the first complete mitogenome of the south china deep-sea giant isopod bathynomus sp. (crustacea: isopoda: cirolanidae) allows insights into the early mitogenomic evolution of isopods. | in this study, the complete mitochondrial (mt) genome sequence of the south china deep-sea giant isopod bathynomus sp. was determined, and this study is the first to explore in detail the mt genome of a deep-sea member of the order isopoda. this species belongs to the genus bathynomus, the members of which are saprophagous residents of the deep-sea benthic environment; based on their large size, bathynomus is included in the "supergiant group" of isopods. the mt genome of bathynomus sp. is 14,96 ... | 2017 | 28331594 |