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ECB-ART-32034
Gene 1989 Mar 15;761:181-5. doi: 10.1016/0378-1119(89)90022-x.
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Gene arrangement in sea star mitochondrial DNA demonstrates a major inversion event during echinoderm evolution.

Smith MJ , Banfield DK , Doteval K , Gorski S , Kowbel DJ .


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The mitochondrial (mt) DNA from the sea star Pisaster ochraceus has been isolated, restriction-mapped, and cloned into plasmid vectors. Both ribosomal RNA genes, the genes for 12 of the 13 mitochondrial proteins, and 11 of the tRNA genes have been localized by DNA sequence analyses. The sequence arrangement of the genes is markedly different from that seen in sea urchin mitochondrial DNA. A segment of the DNA molecule extending from tRNA(pro), including the tRNA cluster, ND1, ND2, and 16S genes, is inverted in relation to the sea urchin genome. The resulting gene order in the sea star is 12S, 16S, ND2, tRNA cluster, COI. As a result of the inversion, the transcriptional polarity of ND1, ND2, and 16S genes are opposite to that of the 12S and COI genes. The arrangement and transcriptional polarity of the other genes mapped here is the same as seen in urchin.

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Genes referenced: LOC100887844 mt-nd2