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SUBMITTER: Li YP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3036069 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Genetics and molecular biology 20100101 1
Bombyx mori and Bombyx mandarina are morphologically and physiologically similar. In this study, we compared the nucleotide variations in the complete mitochondrial (mt) genomes between the domesticated silkmoth, B. mori, and its wild ancestors, Chinese B. mandarina (ChBm) and Japanese B. mandarina (JaBm). The sequence divergence and transition mutation ratio between B. mori and ChBm are significantly smaller than those observed between B. mori and JaBm. The preference of transition by DNA stran ...[more]