A comparative study of nemertean complete mitochondrial genomes, including two new ones for Nectonemertes cf. mirabilis and Zygeupolia rubens, may elucidate the fundamental pattern for the phylum Nemertea

Table 3 Summary of multiple alignments of tRNA genes in nemertean mtDNAs

ALN	amino acid	alignment length	identical positions	%INUC
trnA	Alanine	72	21	29.17
trnC	Cysteine	66	39	59.09
trnD	Aspartate	66	26	39.39
trnE	Glutamate	65	27	41.54
trnF	Phenylalanine	68	22	32.35
trnG	Glycine	67	39	58.21
trnH	Histidine	67	25	37.31
trnI	Isoleucine	72	28	38.89
trnK	Lysine	73	23	31.51
trnL1	Leucine (CUN)	69	21	30.43
trnL2	Leucine (UUR)	68	28	41.18
trnM	Methionine	66	38	57.58
trnN	Asparagine	69	20	28.99
trnP ^a	Proline	67	24	35.82
trnQ	Glutamine	70	28	40.00
trnR	Arginine	67	16	23.88
trnS1	Serine (UCN)	71	23	32.39
trnS2	Serine (AGN)	73	30	41.10
trnT ^a	Threonine	71	23	32.39
trnV	Valine	69	33	47.83
trnW	Tryptophan	70	27	38.57
trnY	Tyrosine	68	32	47.06

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