Sequencing of a Segment of a Monilophyte Species Mitochondrial Genome Reveals Features Highly Similar to those of Seed Plant mtDNAs

摘要

A continuous sequence of 20,374 bp has been produced corresponding to an equivalent region of the mitochondrialgenome of the fern Asplenium nidus. The information content of this sequence includes: several segments fromchloroplast origin, three tRNA genes of probable native type, a couple of inverted repeats, three protein genes and a segmentof a fourth.