Wahedi Azizia, Günther Anja, Weyrich Alexandra, Sondheimer Neal
Program in Genetics and Genome Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada.
The Department of Paediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada.
Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2020 May 22;5(3):2147-2148. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2020.1768918.
is a wild guinea pig found throughout South America. The previously published mitochondrial sequence for was highly divergent from the sequence and contained stop codons within open reading frames. Here we resequenced the mitochondrial genomes of and . Both sequences reflect gene organization typical for mammalian mitochondrial DNA. Our mtDNA sequence shows that all of the open reading frames are intact, but confirms the strikingly low level of sequence identity (92.7%) with the closely related mtDNA.