Deep RNA sequencing reveals the smallest known mitochondrial micro exon in animals: The placozoan cox1 single base pair exon

MtDNA The small workhorse of evolutionary studies

(2017) Rob Desalle   Frontiers in Bioscience-Landmark

Animal Mitochondrial DNA as We Do Not Know It: mt-Genome Organization and Evolution in Nonbilaterian Lineages

(2016) Dennis V. Lavrov et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Short read sequencing assembly revealed the complete mitochondrial genome of Ischnura elegans Vander Linden, 1820 (Odonata: Zygoptera)

(2016) Wiebke Feindt et al.   Mitochondrial DNA Part B-Resources

The complete mitochondrial genome of the emperor dragonfly Anax imperator LEACH, 1815 (Odonata : Aeshnidae) via NGS sequencing

(2016) Rebecca Herzog et al.   Mitochondrial DNA Part B-Resources

The complete mitochondrial genome of the neotropical helicopter damselfly Megaloprepus caerulatus (Odonata: Zygoptera) assembled from next generation sequencing data

(2016) Wiebke Feindt et al.   Mitochondrial DNA Part B-Resources

A single-nucleotide exon found in Arabidopsis

(2015) Lei Guo et al.   Scientific Reports

A Highly Conserved Program of Neuronal Microexons Is Misregulated in Autistic Brains

(2014) Manuel Irimia et al.   CELL

RBFOX and PTBP1 proteins regulate the alternative splicing of micro-exons in human brain transcripts

(2014) Yang I. Li et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

A resourceful genome: updating the functional repertoire and evolutionary role of animal mitochondrial DNAs

(2014) Sophie Breton et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

MAFFT Multiple Sequence Alignment Software Version 7: Improvements in Performance and Usability

(2013) K. Katoh et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Mitogenomics at the base of Metazoa

(2013) Hans-Jürgen Osigus et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Global Diversity of the Placozoa

(2013) Michael Eitel et al.   PLoS One

Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data

(2012) M. Kearse et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Mitochondrial genomes from the lichenized fungi Peltigera membranacea and Peltigera malacea: Features and phylogeny

(2012) Basil Britto Xavier et al.   Fungal Biology

Evolution of Extensively Fragmented Mitochondrial Genomes in the Lice of Humans

(2012) Renfu Shao et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Mitochondrial DNA of Clathrina clathrus (Calcarea, Calcinea): Six Linear Chromosomes, Fragmented rRNAs, tRNA Editing, and a Novel Genetic Code

(2012) Dennis V. Lavrov et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Chasing the urmetazoon: Striking a blow for quality data?

(2012) Hans-Jürgen Osigus et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Genetic aspects of mitochondrial genome evolution

(2012) Matthias Bernt et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Mitochondrial Genome of a Japanese Placozoan

(2012) Hideyuki Miyazawa et al.   ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Evolution of Linear Mitochondrial Genomes in Medusozoan Cnidarians

(2011) Ehsan Kayal et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Extreme mitochondrial evolution in the ctenophoreMnemiopsis leidyi: Insight from mtDNA and the nuclear genome

(2011) Walker Pett et al.   Mitochondrial DNA

The phylogeography of the Placozoa suggests a taxon-rich phylum in tropical and subtropical waters

(2010) M. EITEL et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Group I-intron trans-splicing and mRNA editing in the mitochondria of placozoan animals

(2009) Gertraud Burger et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Concatenated Analysis Sheds Light on Early Metazoan Evolution and Fuels a Modern “Urmetazoon” Hypothesis

(2009) Bernd Schierwater et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY