Conserved sequence motifs, alignment, and secondary structure for the third domain of animal 12S rRNA

Molecular Biology and Evolution
R E HicksonD Penny

Abstract

Secondary structure models are an important step for aligning sequences, understanding probabilities of nucleotide substitutions, and evaluating the reliability of phylogenetic reconstructions. A set of conserved sequence motifs is derived from comparative sequence analysis of 184 invertebrate and vertebrate taxa (including many taxa from the same genera, families, and orders) with reference to a secondary structure model for domain III of animal mitochondrial small subunit (12S) ribosomal RNA. A template is presented to assist with secondary structure drawing. Our model is similar to previous models but is more specific to mitochondrial DNA, fitting both invertebrate and vertebrate groups, including taxa with markedly different nucleotide compositions. The second half of the domain III sequence can be difficult to align precisely, even when secondary structure information is considered. This is especially true for comparisons of anciently diverged taxa, but well-conserved motifs assist in determining biologically meaningful alignments. Patterns of conservation and variability in both paired and unpaired regions make differential phylogenetic weighting in terms of "stems" and "loops" unsatisfactory. We emphasize looking careful...Continue Reading

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