Nuclear sequences of mitochondrial origin in domestic yak

Autor: Mélissa Poncet, Maureen Féménia, Clémence Pierre, Mathieu Charles, Aurélien Capitan, Arnaud Boulling, Dominique Rocha
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Scientific Reports, Vol 14, Iss 1, Pp 1-6 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2045-2322
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-61147-7
Popis: Abstract Mitochondrial DNA sequences are frequently transferred into the nuclear genome, generating nuclear mitochondrial DNA sequences (NUMTs). Here, we analysed, for the first time, NUMTs in the domestic yak genome. We obtained 499 alignment matches covering 340.2 kbp of the yak nuclear genome. After a merging step, we identified 167 NUMT regions with a total length of ~ 503 kbp, representing 0.02% of the nuclear genome. We discovered copies of all mitochondrial regions and found that most NUMT regions are intergenic or intronic and mostly untranscribed. 98 different NUMT regions from domestic yak showed high homology with cow and/or wild yak genomes, suggesting selection or hybridization between domestic/wild yak and cow. To rule out the possibility that the identified NUMTs could be artifacts of the domestic yak genome assembly, we validated experimentally five NUMT regions by PCR amplification. As NUMT regions show high similarity to the mitochondrial genome can potentially pose a risk to domestic yak DNA mitochondrial studies, special care is therefore needed to select primers for PCR amplification of mitochondrial DNA sequences.
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