MITOCOMP

MitoComp2

DIGEMI,
Dpt. of Genetics and Microbiology,
University of Bari, Italy

D. melanogaster P-insertion
mutants in the OXPHOS system

MITOCOMP2-nuclear OXPHOS genes and gene duplicates
D. simulans	87
D. melanogaster	100
D. yakuba	87
D. erecta	87
D. ananassae	87
D. pseudoobscura	100
D. persimilis	85
D. willistoni	84
D. mojavensis	82
D. virilis	83
D. grimshawi	85
Anopheles gambiae	88
Aedes aegypti	70
Bombyx mori	75
Apis mellifera	69
Tribolium castaneum	70

Current Team: Damiano Porcelli and Corrado Caggese

Comparison of insect nuclear OXPHOS genes:

Complex I: NADH ubiquinone oxidoreductase

Complex II: Succinate dehydrogenase

Complex III: Ubiquinol-cytochrome C oxidoreductase complex

Complex IV: Cytochrome c oxidase

Complex V: F0/F1 ATP synthase

Others

See also:
- OXPHOS gene structure comparisons in insecta, fish and human
- NRG elements in the Drosophilidae OXPHOS genes
- NRG elements in the Insect OXPHOS genes

For more detailed information see:

Tripoli G, D'Elia D, Barsanti P, Caggese C. Comparison of the oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) nuclear genes in the genomes of Drosophila melanogaster, Drosophila pseudoobscura and Anopheles gambiae. Genome Biol. (2005), 6:R11.

Porcelli D, Barsanti P, Pesole G, Caggese C. The nuclear OXPHOS genes in insecta: a common evolutionary origin, a common cis-regulatory motif, a common destiny for gene duplicates. BMC Evolutionary Biology (2007), in press.