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Conserved tRNA gene cluster in starfish mitochondrial DNA

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Partial sequencing of mtDNA from four long-diverged species of starfish reveals the existence of a conserved cluster of 13 tRNA genes, organized in a manner similar to that of the tRNA cluster of sea urchin mtDNA, but located at a position distant from the presumed replication origin. These findings suggest that a clustered organization of tRNA genes may have been present in the ancestral mitochondrial genome, and raise the possibility that tRNAs may have catalyzed the dispersal rather than the accumulation of the genes which encode them.

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  1. Department of Genetics, University of Glasgow, Church Street, Glasgow, G11 5JS, Scotland, UK

    Howard T. Jacobs

  2. Department of Industrial Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, University of Tokyo, 113, Tokyo, Japan

    Shuichi Asakawa, Takeyoshi Araki & Kin-ichiro Miura

  3. Institute of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, V5A 1S6, Burnaby, B.C., Canada

    Michael J. Smith

  4. Department of Life Chemistry, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 227, Yokohama, Japan

    Kimitsuna Watanabe

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Jacobs, H.T., Asakawa, S., Araki, T. et al. Conserved tRNA gene cluster in starfish mitochondrial DNA. Curr Genet 15, 193–206 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00435506

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