Evolutionary patterns of the mitochondrial genome in Metazoa: exploring the role of mutation and selection in mitochondrial protein–coding genes

S Castellana, S Vicario… - Genome biology and …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
The mitochondrial genome is a fundamental component of the eukaryotic domain of life,
encoding for several important subunits of the respiratory chain, the main energy production …

Improved annotation of protein-coding genes boundaries in metazoan mitochondrial genomes

A Donath, F Jühling, M Al-Arab… - Nucleic acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
With the rapid increase of sequenced metazoan mitochondrial genomes, a detailed manual
annotation is becoming more and more infeasible. While it is easy to identify the …

Redesign of PCR primers for mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I for marine invertebrates and application in all‐taxa biotic surveys

J Geller, C Meyer, M Parker… - Molecular ecology …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
DNA barcoding is a powerful tool for species detection, identification and discovery.
Metazoan DNA barcoding is primarily based upon a specific region of the cytochrome c …

MITOS: improved de novo metazoan mitochondrial genome annotation

M Bernt, A Donath, F Jühling, F Externbrink… - Molecular phylogenetics …, 2013 - Elsevier
About 2000 completely sequenced mitochondrial genomes are available from the NCBI
RefSeq data base together with manually curated annotations of their protein-coding genes …

How to sequence and annotate insect mitochondrial genomes for systematic and comparative genomics research

S Cameron - Systematic Entomology, 2014 - eprints.qut.edu.au
Over the past decade the mitochondrial (mt) genome has become the most widely used
genomic resource available for systematic entomology. While the availability of other types …

Complete mitochondrial genomes of Taenia multiceps, T. hydatigena and T. pisiformis: additional molecular markers for a tapeworm genus of human and animal …

WZ Jia, HB Yan, AJ Guo, XQ Zhu, YC Wang, WG Shi… - BMC genomics, 2010 - Springer
Background Mitochondrial genomes provide a rich source of molecular variation of proven
and widespread utility in molecular ecology, population genetics and evolutionary biology …

Life-history evolution and mitogenomic phylogeny of caecilian amphibians

D San Mauro, DJ Gower, H Müller, SP Loader… - Molecular phylogenetics …, 2014 - Elsevier
We analyze mitochondrial genomes to reconstruct a robust phylogenetic framework for
caecilian amphibians and use this to investigate life-history evolution within the group. Our …

Bioinformatics methods for the comparative analysis of metazoan mitochondrial genome sequences

M Bernt, A Braband, M Middendorf, B Misof… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2013 - Elsevier
In this review we provide an overview of various bioinformatics methods and tools for the
analysis of metazoan mitochondrial genomes. We compare available dedicated databases …

[HTML][HTML] Problematic barcoding in flatworms: a case-study on monogeneans and rhabdocoels (Platyhelminthes)

MPM Vanhove, B Tessens, C Schoelinck, U Jondelius… - ZooKeys, 2013 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Some taxonomic groups are less amenable to mitochondrial DNA barcoding than others.
Due to the paucity of molecular information of understudied groups and the huge molecular …

Structure, transcription, and variability of metazoan mitochondrial genome: perspectives from an unusual mitochondrial inheritance system

F Ghiselli, L Milani, D Guerra, PL Chang… - Genome biology and …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Despite its functional conservation, the mitochondrial genome (mtDNA) presents strikingly
different features among eukaryotes, such as size, rearrangements, and amount of …