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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Mar 2.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Protoc Mouse Biol. 2017 Mar 2;7(1):47–54. doi: 10.1002/cpmo.21

Figure 1. Mouse mitochondrial DNA.

Figure 1

The mouse mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) comprises 16,295 bp. MtDNA forms an inner light strand (L-strand) and an outer heavy strand (H-strand) that encodes different genes. The position of gene names reflects the strand where they are encoded (inside: L-strand: outside: H-strand). Colors identify the different genes: rRNAs (purple), tRNAs (yellow), proteins encoding subunits of the OXPHOS complexes I (blue), III (green), IV (orange) and V (red). 16S rRNA and ND1 genes are located in the stable part of mtDNA, where no deletions have been reported.