A population specific mitochondrial intron from the sponge Phakellia robusta in the North-East Atlantic

• Published in: Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers
• Main Authors: Cranston, Alex, Taboada, S., Koutsouveli, Vasiliki, Schuster, Astrid, Riesgo Gil, Ana
• Other Authors: European Commission
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2021
• Subjects: Self-splicing mitochondrial intron; Homing endonuclease gene (HEG); LAGLIDADG homing Endonucleases (LHEs); Hybridization; Porifera; Horizontal gene transfer; Intron presence/absence polymorphism; Heg; Norway; North Atlantic; North East Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/245381; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2021.103534; https://doi.org/10.13039/501100000780

Self-splicing mitochondrial introns are a rarely reported phenomenon in animals, with a sparse and uneven distribution confined to some species of sponges, corals, placozoans, and a single species of annelid. Here, we describe a mitochondrial intron present only in some populations of Phakellia robu...