Martes species represent a typical example of rapid evolutionary radiation and a recent speciation event. To identify regions of the genome that experienced adaptive evolution, which might provide clues to their functional importance and may be informative about the features that make each species unique, we sought evidence of molecular adaptation in the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) cytochrome b g...

bemisia tabaci (gennadius) (hemiptera: aleyrodidae), is one of the most important pest of vegetable and fruit crops. this polyphagous pest has a range of natural enemies including the parasitoid eretmocerus mundus (merect) (hymenoptera: aphelinidae). to determine the molecular profile and taxonomic status of iranian isolates of e. mundus, parasitized b. tabaci samples were collected from cotton...

persian gazelle, gazella subgutturosa, exists throughout arid and semiarid regions of iran and has a key role in these frail ecosystems. habitat degradation and population decline has placed it on the list of vulnerable species in 2008. the phylogenetic relationships of three persian gazelle populations in the central part of iran (i.e. ghamishlou national park and wildlife refuge, mouteh wildl...

The biosynthesis of mammalian mitochondrial cytochromes was explored in primary hepatocyte cultures. When these were pulsed with [35S]methionine in the presence of cycloheximide, eight discrete mitochondrial polypeptides were detected by fluorography after their resolution under denaturing conditions by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Since the pulse labeling of the polypeptides was sensiti...

There are well-known difficulties in using the cytochrome oxidase I (COI) mitochondrial gene region for population genetics and DNA barcoding in corals. A recent study of species divergence in the endemic Caribbean genus Agaricia reinforced such knowledge. However, the growing availability of whole mitochondrial genomes may help indicate more promising gene regions for species delineation. I as...

We investigated phylogenetic relationships among five species of Japanese brown frogs by the analysis of nucleotide sequences in the cytochrome b gene of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). The sequence of the 251-base pairs, which cover approximately 22% of the cytochrome b gene, was determined by PCR-Direct sequencing method. Phylogenetic relationships were analyzed by UPGMA, neighbor-joining, maximum...