Journal article

Functional respiratory chain analyses in murid xenomitochondrial cybrids expose coevolutionary constraints of cytochrome b and nuclear subunits of complex III

M McKenzie, M Chiotis, CA Pinkert, IA Trounce

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION | OXFORD UNIV PRESS | Published : 2003

Abstract

The large number of extant Muridae species provides the opportunity of investigating functional limits of nuclear/mitochondrial respiratory chain (RC) subunit interactions by introducing mitochondrial genomes from progressively more divergent species into Mus musculus domesticus mtDNA-less (rho0) cells. We created a panel of such xenomitochondrial cybrids, using as mitochondrial donors cells from six murid species with divergence from M. m. domesticus estimated at 2 to 12 Myr before present. Species used were Mus spretus, Mus caroli, Mus dunni, Mus pahari, Otomys irroratus, and Rattus norvegicus. Parsimony analysis of partial mtDNA sequences showed agreement with previous molecular phylogeni..

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