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. 2000 Jan;154(1):181–192. doi: 10.1093/genetics/154.1.181

A multipartite mitochondrial genome in the potato cyst nematode Globodera pallida.

M R Armstrong 1, V C Blok 1, M S Phillips 1
PMCID: PMC1460896  PMID: 10628979

Abstract

The mitochondrial genome (mtDNA) of the plant parasitic nematode Globodera pallida exists as a population of small, circular DNAs that, taken individually, are of insufficient length to encode the typical metazoan mitochondrial gene complement. As far as we are aware, this unusual structural organization is unique among higher metazoans, although interesting comparisons can be made with the multipartite mitochondrial genome organizations of plants and fungi. The variation in frequency between populations displayed by some components of the mtDNA is likely to have major implications for the way in which mtDNA can be used in population and evolutionary genetic studies of G. pallida.

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