--- /dev/null
+[[!meta title="Complete sequence, gene arrangement, and genetic code of mitochondrial DNA of the cephalochordate Branchiostoma floridae (Amphioxus)"]]
+[[!tag mitochondrion]]
+
+Mol Biol Evol. 1999 Mar;16(3):410-8 doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a026122
+
+Boore JL, Daehler LL, Brown WM.
+
+Complete sequence, gene arrangement, and genetic code of mitochondrial DNA of the cephalochordate Branchiostoma floridae (Amphioxus)
+
+[[!pmid 10331267 desc="AGA encodes serine in amphioxus mitochondrial DNA. AGG
+is absent. AGA and AGG are reduced in frequencey compared to the AGY serine
+codons, which suggests a that the common ancestor of chordates had a
+precondition for AGR reassignment."]]
genetic code.
- [[Spruyt and coll, 1998|biblio/9628930]] found a putative TCT (Gly) tRNA
in the mitochondrial genome of the amphioxus (in which they also show
- that the AGG codon is not used).
+ that the AGG codon is not used), but [[Boore, Daehler and Brown, 1999|biblio/10331267]]
+ rebutted the suggestion of a AGA reassignment to Gly.
- [[Kondow and coll, 1999|biblio/10352185]] sequenced a Gly(U*CU) tRNA
in _Halocynthia roretzi._.
- [[Yokobori and coll, 1999|biblio/10581290]] sequenced the mitochondrial