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• TITLE: Evidence for the independent divergence of vertebrate and high C/G ratio invertebrate mitochondria from the same origin

  AUTHORS: Kenji Sorimachi, Teiji Okayasu, Shuji Ohhira, Ichio Fukasawa, Nobuhide Masawa

  KEYWORDS: Evolution; Genome; Mitochondria;Nucleotide Contents; Vertebrate; Invertebrate

  JOURNAL NAME: Natural Science, Vol.4 No.7, July 10, 2012

  ABSTRACT: The examination of organelle nucleotide contents across a range of groups can provide insight into evolutionary history. We compared the nucleotide contents of a large number of vertebrate and high C/G ratio invertebrate mitochondria in both coding/non-coding regions and complete strands. For most nucleotides tested, high regression coefficients were obtained; when plotted with lines of best fit, G and T contents formed a cuneiform, and C and A contents overlapped. These findings suggest that vertebrate and high C/G ratio invertebrate mitochondria descended independently from the same origin.