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dc.contributor.authorHemmi, Keitaro
dc.contributor.authorDu Preez, Louis
dc.contributor.authorMinter, Leslie
dc.contributor.authorKurabayashi, Atsushi
dc.contributor.authorKakehashi, Ryosuke
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-23T11:23:45Z
dc.date.available2020-06-23T11:23:45Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.citationHemmi, K. et al. 2020. Exceptional enlargement of the mitochondrial genome results from distinct causes in different rain frogs (Anura: Brevicipitidae: Breviceps). International journal of genomics, 2020: #6540343. [https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/6540343]en_US
dc.identifier.issn2314-436X
dc.identifier.issn2314-4378 (Online)
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10394/34861
dc.identifier.urihttp://downloads.hindawi.com/journals/ijg/2020/6540343.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1155/2020/6540343
dc.description.abstractThe mitochondrial (mt) genome of the bushveld rain frog (Breviceps adspersus, Brevicipitidae, Afrobatrachia) is the largest (28.8 kbp) among the vertebrates investigated to date. The major cause of genome size enlargement in this species is the duplication of multiple genomic regions. To investigate the evolutionary lineage, timing, and process of mt genome enlargement, we sequenced the complete mtDNAs of two congeneric rain frogs, B. mossambicus and B. poweri. The mt genomic organization, gene content, and gene arrangements of these two rain frogs are very similar to each other but differ from those of B. adspersus. The B. mossambicus mt genome (22.5 kbp) does not differ significantly from that of most other afrobatrachians. In contrast, the B. poweri mtDNA (28.1 kbp) is considerably larger: currently the second largest among vertebrates, after B. adspersus. The main causes of genome enlargement differ among Breviceps species. Unusual elongation (12.5 kbp) of the control region (CR), a single major noncoding region of the vertebrate mt genome, is responsible for the extremely large mt genome in B. poweri. Based on the current Breviceps phylogeny and estimated divergence age, it can be concluded that the genome enlargements occurred independently in each species lineage within relatively short periods. Furthermore, a high nucleotide substitution rate and relaxation of selective pressures, which are considered to be involved in changes in genome size, were also detected in afrobatrachian lineages. Our results suggest that these factors were not direct causes but may have indirectly affected mt genome enlargements in Brevicepsen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherHindawien_US
dc.titleExceptional enlargement of the mitochondrial genome results from distinct causes in different rain frogs (Anura: Brevicipitidae: Breviceps)en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.contributor.researchID30578973 - Kurabayashi, Atsushi
dc.contributor.researchID12308218 - Du Preez, Louis Heyns
dc.contributor.researchID22013210 - Minter, Leslie Rory


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