Mitochondrial Dna Books And References

Question

[Maryane]

I'm going to work on a project related to mitogenomes ie. mutations, rearrangements, breakpoints, what is the best understandable book that explain the mitogonome the best way? I already dowloaded "mitochondria" second edition of wiley

[SES]

Are you going to be working on plants or animals? That is relevant to finding helpful references.

[Maryane]

it's for metazoan genomes

Answer 1

[Gjain]

Hi Maryane,

you might want to look at:

• Title Dynamics of Mitochondrial Genome Evolution in the Lower Metazoan Phyla Porifera, Cnidaria and Ctenophera [microform]
• Author Watkins, Russell Floyd
• Publisher Simon Fraser University, 2002

• ISBN 0612616924, 9780612616929

• Apart from this book, these databases might be useful to you:

• MitoZoa: A curated mitochondrial genome database of metazoans for comparative genomics studies
• AMiGA: The Arthropodan Mitochondrial Genomes Accessible database

I hope this helps.

Answer 2

[SES]

Here is a classic analysis of the Human MtDNA genome. There are also relevant papers in the sidebar to the right.

Related papers:

• Evolutionary genomics in the Metazoa
• Analysis of mitochondrial rearrangements in Metazoa
• Evolution of the mitochondrial genome of Metazoa