Complete vertebrate mitogenomes reveal widespread repeats and gene duplications

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Giulio Formenti · Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Arang Rhie · National Institutes of Health

Jennifer Balacco · Rockefeller University

Bettina Haase · Rockefeller University

Jacquelyn Mountcastle · Rockefeller University

Olivier Fédrigo · Rockefeller University

Samara Brown ·

Abstract

Our results indicate that even in the "simple" case of vertebrate mitogenomes the completeness of many currently available reference sequences can be further improved, and caution should be exercised before claiming the complete assembly of a mitogenome, particularly from short reads alone.

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Published in: Genome biology

Volume 22, Issue 1, pp. 120-120

DOI: 10.1186/s13059-021-02336-9

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Complete vertebrate mitogenomes reveal widespread repeats and gene duplications

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