The complete mitochondrial genomes sequences of Asio flammeus and Asio otus and comparative analysis  

作　　者：SUN Yi1, MA Fei1, XIAO Bing1, ZHENG Junjie2, YUAN Xiaodong2, TANG Minqian2, WANG Li3, YU Yefei3 & Li Qingwei1 1. College of Life Sciences, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian 116029, China 2. TaKaRa Biotechnology (Dalian) Co., Ltd., Dalian 116600, China 3. The Administrative Office of the Natural Protective Zone of Snake Island-Lao Tie Hill, Dalian 116041, China Correspondence should be addressed to Li Qingwei 

出　　处：《Science China(Life Sciences)》2004年第6期510-520,共11页中国科学（生命科学英文版）

基　　金：This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.30170505).

摘　　要：The complete mitochondrial genomes of Asio flammeus and Asio otus were se- quenced and found to span 18858 bp and 18493 bp, respectively. It is surprising to find the for- mer to be the largest among all avian mitochondrial genomes sequenced so far. The two ge- nomes have very similar gene order with that of Gallus gallus, neither contains the pseudo con- trol region, but both have a single extra base, namely Cytidine, at position 174 in ND3 gene. The control regions of Asio flammeus and Asio otus’ mitochondrial genomes span 3288 bp and 2926 bp respectively, which are the longest among vertebrates except for Myxine glutinosa and con- tribute to the large size of two genomes. The 3′end of the control region of Asio flammeus and Asio otus contains many tandemly repeated sequences, which are highly similar to a putative control element, i.e. Mt5, and may form stable stem-loop secondary structures. Such repeated sequences probably play an important role in regulating transcription and replication of mito- chondrial genome. Our results may provide important clues for uncovering the origin and evolu- tion mechanisms of mitochondrion genome.The complete mitochondrial genomes of Asio flammeus and Asio otus were se- quenced and found to span 18858 bp and 18493 bp, respectively. It is surprising to find the for- mer to be the largest among all avian mitochondrial genomes sequenced so far. The two ge- nomes have very similar gene order with that of Gallus gallus, neither contains the pseudo con- trol region, but both have a single extra base, namely Cytidine, at position 174 in ND3 gene. The control regions of Asio flammeus and Asio otus’ mitochondrial genomes span 3288 bp and 2926 bp respectively, which are the longest among vertebrates except for Myxine glutinosa and con- tribute to the large size of two genomes. The 3′end of the control region of Asio flammeus and Asio otus contains many tandemly repeated sequences, which are highly similar to a putative control element, i.e. Mt5, and may form stable stem-loop secondary structures. Such repeated sequences probably play an important role in regulating transcription and replication of mito- chondrial genome. Our results may provide important clues for uncovering the origin and evolu- tion mechanisms of mitochondrion genome.

关 键 词：Asio flammeus  Asio otus  MITOCHONDRIAL genome  CONTROL region  repeated sequence. 

分 类 号：Q78[生物学—分子生物学]