TY  - GEN
A1  - Sammler, Svenja
A1  - Ketmaier, Valerio
A1  - Havenstein, Katja
A1  - Tiedemann, Ralph
T1  - Intraspecific rearrangement of duplicated mitochondrial control regions in the luzon tarictic hornbill penelopides manillae (Aves: Bucerotidae)
T2  - Journal of molecular evolution
N2  - Philippine hornbills of the genera Aceros and Penelopides (Bucerotidae) are known to possess a large tandemly duplicated fragment in their mitochondrial genome, whose paralogous parts largely evolve in concert. In the present study, we surveyed the two distinguishable duplicated control regions in several individuals of the Luzon Tarictic Hornbill Penelopides manillae, compare their characteristics within and across individuals, and report on an intraspecific mitochondrial gene rearrangement found in one single specimen, i.e., an interchange between the two control regions. To our knowledge, this is the first observation of two distinct mitochondrial genome rearrangements within a bird species. We briefly discuss a possible evolutionary mechanism responsible for this pattern, and highlight potential implications for the application of control region sequences as a marker in population genetics and phylogeography.
KW  - Bucerotidae
KW  - Concerted evolution
KW  - Control region
KW  - Mitochondrial gene order
KW  - Mitochondrial recombination
KW  - Philippine archipelago
Y1  - 2013
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00239-013-9591-y
SN  - 0022-2844
SN  - 1432-1432
VL  - 77
IS  - 5-6
SP  - 199
EP  - 205
PB  - Springer
CY  - New York
ER  -