The single mitochondrial chromosome typical of animals has evolved into 18 minichromosomes in the human body louse, Pediculus humanus

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Table 2.

The longest stretches of identical sequence in five pairs of mitochondrial genes of the human body louse, P. humanus, and six other species of animals

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Table 2.
  • aAbbreviations of species names: Ph, Pediculus humanus; Bm, Bothriometopus macrocnemis (screamer louse); Cb, Campanulotes bidentatus (pigeon louse); Hm, Heterodoxus macropus (wallaby louse); Dy, Drosophila yakuba (fruitfly); Ce, Caenorhabditis elegans (roundworm); Hs, Homo sapiens (human).

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