Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Pozzi A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5850712 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pozzi Andrea A Plazzi Federico F Milani Liliana L Ghiselli Fabrizio F Passamonti Marco M
Molecular biology and evolution 20170801 8
Typically, animal mitochondria have very compact genomes, with few short intergenic regions, and no introns. Hence, it may seem that there is little space for unknown functions in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). However, mtDNA can also operate through RNA interference, as small non coding RNAs (sncRNAs) produced by mtDNA have already been proposed for humans. We sequenced sncRNA libraries from isolated mitochondria of Ruditapes philippinarum (Mollusca Bivalvia) gonads, a species with doubly uniparent ...[more]