Heteroplasmy in the mitochondrial genomes of human lice and ticks revealed by high throughput sequencing.

The typical mitochondrial (mt) genomes of bilateral animals consist of 37 genes on a single circular chromosome. The mt genomes of the human body louse, Pediculus humanus, and the human head louse, Pediculus capitis, however, are extensively fragmented and contain 20 minichromosomes, with one to thr...

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Main Authors: Haoyu Xiong, Stephen C Barker, Thomas D Burger, Didier Raoult, Renfu Shao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3772822?pdf=render