Talk:MT-ND3

Orphaned references in MT-ND3
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of MT-ND3's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "Entrez": From MT-ND4L:  From MT-ND4:  From MT-ND6:  

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 23:07, 23 March 2015 (UTC)


 * Thank you,, for bringing this to my attention. I have been editing a number of similar gene/protein pages and it seems that a few numbers got crossed in my referencing. I have gone through the MT-ND genes and fixed everything up. I hope that this looks better!   aogarlid    talk  23:23, 23 March 2015 (UTC)

Birds and turtles
In the MT-ND3 gene from many species of birds and turtles there is an extra nucleotide that is edited out before translation to protein. I do not know that this feature has been found in any crocodilians. Perhaps this feature indicates that turtles belong in the Archosauria, to which birds, dinosaurs, crocodilians, and pterosaurs belong. Perhaps the crocodilians have lost this feature. Scott Tillinghast, Houston TX (talk) 21:55, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12572620 Scott Tillinghast, Houston TX (talk) 19:36, 18 February 2017 (UTC)

My main source for turtles is a website by the University of Montreal, featuring mitochondrial genomes of all kinds of organisms. I am not sure the site still exists. The extra nucleotide is definitely widespread among turtles. Scott Tillinghast, Houston TX (talk) 03:00, 20 February 2017 (UTC)