mitochondrial rRNA: nomenclature descrepancy b/w wormBASE & wormBOOK

Model Organism: Worms WormBase
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I noticed that 12S and 16S mitochondrial rRNAs are annotated as 18S and 23S in Wormbase. Wiki-ing and Googl-ing didn’t help much, anybody could clarify what’s the proper nomenclature for these C.elegans rRNAs?

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I’ve done some literature search and it looks like many (if not all) species - from flies to human have 12S (mitochondrial s-rRNA) and 16S(mitochondrial l-rRNA) genes. So annotations on Wormbase for these two guys are misleading. They make C. elegans look like chimera of eucaryots (23S) and procaryots (18S) at the moment, which is not the case.

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Hi Peter, I’m a sequence curator for WormBase and I’ll take a look into this.

Thanks for bringing this to our attention.

Paul