350 My of Mitochondrial Genome Stasis in Mosses, an Early Land Plant Lineage

Land plant evolutionary timeline: Gene effects are secondary to fossil constraints in relaxed clock estimation of age and substitution rates

(2013) Susana Magallón et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

The “fossilized” mitochondrial genome of Liriodendron tulipifera: ancestral gene content and order, ancestral editing sites, and extraordinarily low mutation rate

(2013) Aaron O Richardson et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Horizontal Transfer of Entire Genomes via Mitochondrial Fusion in the Angiosperm Amborella

(2013) D. W. Rice et al.   SCIENCE

The mitochondrial genome of Malus domestica and the import-driven hypothesis of mitochondrial genome expansion in seed plants

(2012) Vadim V. Goremykin et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

RecA-Dependent DNA Repair Results in Increased Heteroplasmy of the Arabidopsis Mitochondrial Genome

(2012) M. Miller-Messmer et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

The Mitochondrial Genome of the Lycophyte Huperzia squarrosa: The Most Archaic Form in Vascular Plants

(2012) Yang Liu et al.   PLoS One

Hornwort pyrenoids, carbon-concentrating structures, evolved and were lost at least five times during the last 100 million years

(2012) J. C. Villarreal et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Rapid Evolution of Enormous, Multichromosomal Genomes in Flowering Plant Mitochondria with Exceptionally High Mutation Rates

(2012) Daniel B. Sloan et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Double-strand break repair processes drive evolution of the mitochondrial genome in Arabidopsis

(2011) Jaime I Davila et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Determination of the melon chloroplast and mitochondrial genome sequences reveals that the largest reported mitochondrial genome in plants contains a significant amount of DNA having a nuclear origin

(2011) Luis Rodríguez-Moreno et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Mitochondrial genome sequencing helps show the evolutionary mechanism of mitochondrial genome formation in Brassica

(2011) Shengxin Chang et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Establishing a time-scale for plant evolution

(2011) John T. Clarke et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The Mitochondrial Genomes of the Early Land Plants Treubia lacunosa and Anomodon rugelii: Dynamic and Conservative Evolution

(2011) Yang Liu et al.   PLoS One

A scenario of mitochondrial genome evolution in maize based on rearrangement events

(2010) Aude Darracq et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Insights into the Evolution of Mitochondrial Genome Size from Complete Sequences of Citrullus lanatus and Cucurbita pepo (Cucurbitaceae)

(2010) A. J. Alverson et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Recombination and the maintenance of plant organelle genome stability

(2010) Alexandre Maréchal et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The complete mitochondrial genome sequence of the liverwort Pleurozia purpurea reveals extremely conservative mitochondrial genome evolution in liverworts

(2009) Bin Wang et al.   CURRENT GENETICS

The complete mitochondrial genome sequence of the hornwort Phaeoceros laevis: retention of many ancient pseudogenes and conservative evolution of mitochondrial genomes in hornworts

(2009) Jia-Yu Xue et al.   CURRENT GENETICS

The Complete Mitochondrial Genome Sequence of the Hornwort Megaceros aenigmaticus Shows a Mixed Mode of Conservative Yet Dynamic Evolution in Early Land Plant Mitochondrial Genomes

(2009) Libo Li et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

Suppression of Repeat-Mediated Gross Mitochondrial Genome Rearrangements by RecA in the Moss Physcomitrella patens

(2009) M. Odahara et al.   PLANT CELL

The Mitochondrial Genome of the Gymnosperm Cycas taitungensis Contains a Novel Family of Short Interspersed Elements, Bpu Sequences, and Abundant RNA Editing Sites

(2008) S.-M. Chaw et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION