Complete base sequence for the mitochondrial large subunit ribosomal RNA of the gypsy moth Lymantha dispar(L.)
- 1 November 1994
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Insect Molecular Biology
- Vol. 3 (4) , 219-228
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2583.1994.tb00170.x
Abstract
A 1355 bp sequence (accession number L32141) isolated from a gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar) cDNA library showed 68-74% sequence identity to mitochondrial large subunit ribosomal RNA (mt IrRNA) sequences of Locusta migratoria, Apis mellifera, Aedes albopictus, Anopheles gambiae and two Drosophila species. A comparison of the primary sequences of the mt IrRNAs from the above insects in four orders and from Esherichia coli demonstrated regions of conservation which presumably correspond to regions of functional and/or structural homology. A secondary structure for the gypsy moth mt IrRNA sequence was derived based on the proposed secondary structures of Drosophila yakuba and Aedes albopictus mt IrRNAs (Gutell & Fox, Nucleic Acid Res 16 (Suppl.), r175-r269, 1988). This sequence was found to hybridize to about 10-15% of the clones in several (eleven) gypsy moth cDNA libraries.Keywords
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