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  • Title: Conservation of the myoglobin gene among Antarctic notothenioid fishes.
    Author: Vayda ME, Small DJ, Yuan ML, Costello L, Sidell BD.
    Journal: Mol Mar Biol Biotechnol; 1997 Sep; 6(3):207-16. PubMed ID: 9284559.
    Abstract:
    We determined the myoglobin cDNA sequence for seven Antarctic notothenioid fish species. These data identify mutations in the myoglobin gene for Champsocephalus gunnari and Pagetopsis macropterus, two icefish species that lack detectable quantities of the polypeptide but express myoglobin mRNA. a third species lacking myoglobin polypeptide, Chaenocephalus aceratus, is devoid of myoglobin mRNA and accordingly failed to produce myoglobin products on polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification. Myoglobin cDNA sequences were highly conserved among the species the express the protein, particularly in the coding region. Sequence variation among the myoglobin-expressing channichthyid species was 2.0% to 2.9% in the coding region and 2.6% to 3.3% over the entire cDNA. The same extent of variation, 1.6% to 3.2% in the coding sequence and 2.8% to 3.7% overall, was observed between the icefishes and more distantly related, red-blooded nototheniid species. The two species expressing mutant myoglobin mRNA, C. gunnari and P. macropterus, exhibited the highest degree of sequence variation among the fish myoglobins examined. Drift in the myoglobin sequence in these two species, and conservation of myoglobin cDNA among fishes from two distinct families, suggest that a selective pressure operates to maintain myoglobin in the species that express the protein.
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