Loss of Two Introns from the Magnolia tripetala Mitochondrial cox2 Gene Implicates Horizontal Gene Transfer and Gene Conversion as a Novel Mechanism of Intron Loss

Evidence against Equimolarity of Large Repeat Arrangements and a Predominant Master Circle Structure of the Mitochondrial Genome from a Monkeyflower (Mimulus guttatus) Lineage with Cryptic CMS

(2012) Jeffrey P. Mower et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Horizontal acquisition of multiple mitochondrial genes from a parasitic plant followed by gene conversion with host mitochondrial genes

(2011) Jeffrey P Mower et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Extreme RNA Editing in Coding Islands and Abundant Microsatellites in Repeat Sequences of Selaginella moellendorffii Mitochondria: The Root of Frequent Plant mtDNA Recombination in Early Tracheophytes

(2011) Julia Hecht et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

OrgConv: detection of gene conversion using consensus sequences and its application in plant mitochondrial and chloroplast homologs

(2010) Weilong Hao   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Extensive loss of translational genes in the structurally dynamic mitochondrial genome of the angiosperm Silene latifolia

(2010) Daniel B Sloan et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

A unique transcriptome: 1782 positions of RNA editing alter 1406 codon identities in mitochondrial mRNAs of the lycophyte Isoetes engelmannii

(2010) Felix Grewe et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Gorgeous mosaic of mitochondrial genes created by horizontal transfer and gene conversion

(2010) W. Hao et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

New Algorithms and Methods to Estimate Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies: Assessing the Performance of PhyML 3.0

(2010) Stéphane Guindon et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Group II Introns: Mobile Ribozymes that Invade DNA

(2010) A. M. Lambowitz et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Fast evolution of the retroprocessed mitochondrial rps3 gene in Conifer II and further evidence for the phylogeny of gymnosperms

(2009) Jin-Hua Ran et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

The PREP suite: predictive RNA editors for plant mitochondrial genes, chloroplast genes and user-defined alignments

(2009) J. P. Mower   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Fine-scale mergers of chloroplast and mitochondrial genes create functional, transcompartmentally chimeric mitochondrial genes

(2009) W. Hao et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The give-and-take of DNA: horizontal gene transfer in plants

(2009) Ralph Bock   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Frequent, Phylogenetically Local Horizontal Transfer of the cox1 Group I Intron in Flowering Plant Mitochondria

(2008) M. V. Sanchez-Puerta et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION