Characteristics and Distribution of Large Tandem Duplications in Brook Stickleback (Culaea Inconstans) Mitochondrial DNA
AUTOR(ES)
Gach, M. H.
RESUMO
Most animal mitochondrial DNAs (mtDNAs) range in size from 15 to 18 kb, but increased sizes up to ~40 kb are occasionally found. We investigated large size variation in mtDNA of the brook stickleback fish, Culaea inconstans, and characterized four large (2.7-5.8 kb) tandem duplications. Duplications differ in size, frequency of occurrence, and degree of associated heteroplasmy, but each includes the control region and one or more adjacent genes. Duplications are correlated with two mtDNA lineages sampled from 31 populations. L(1) duplications (3.2-4.8 kb) were present in all lineage I individuals (n = 121, 19 populations); 53 fish were heteroplasmic due to variation in the copy number of a tandemly repeated 270-bp sequence within the duplicated region. In contrast, duplications L(2), L(3), and L(4) (2.7-5.8 kb) occurred in only 117 of 174 lineage II fish, in eight of 14 populations. Nine fish with L(3) or L(4) duplications were heteroplasmic, possessing some mtDNAs that lacked duplications (normal-length mtDNAs). Heteroplasmy in L(2) was associated with a small variable region near the ND5 gene. Phylogenetic analysis of restriction sites in Culaea mtDNAs and haplotype-defining sequence differences present in both copies argue for multiple independent events that gave rise to three of the four duplications.
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