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

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

NONADAPTIVE EVOLUTION OF MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME SIZE

(2011) Bastien Boussau et al.   EVOLUTION

Origins and Recombination of the Bacterial-Sized Multichromosomal Mitochondrial Genome of Cucumber

(2011) A. J. Alverson et al.   PLANT CELL

The Mitochondrial Genome of the Legume Vigna radiata and the Analysis of Recombination across Short Mitochondrial Repeats

(2011) Andrew J. Alverson et al.   PLoS One

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

Extensive Loss of RNA Editing Sites in Rapidly Evolving Silene Mitochondrial Genomes: Selection vs. Retroprocessing as the Driving Force

(2010) D. B. Sloan et al.   GENETICS

Paternal Leakage and Heteroplasmy of Mitochondrial Genomes in Silene vulgaris: Evidence From Experimental Crosses

(2010) K. E. Bentley et al.   GENETICS

Don't forget the ancestral polymorphisms

(2010) D Charlesworth   HEREDITY

Low Nucleotide Diversity for the Expanded Organelle and Nuclear Genomes of Volvox carteri Supports the Mutational-Hazard Hypothesis

(2010) D. R. Smith et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

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

The End of the Circle for Yeast Mitochondrial DNA

(2010) Arnold J. Bendich   MOLECULAR CELL

Recombination and the maintenance of plant organelle genome stability

(2010) Alexandre Maréchal et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

Systematically fragmented genes in a multipartite mitochondrial genome

(2010) Cestmir Vlcek et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

The complete sequence of the smallest known nuclear genome from the microsporidian Encephalitozoon intestinalis

(2010) Nicolas Corradi et al.   Nature Communications

Did Genetic Drift Drive Increases in Genome Complexity?

(2010) Kenneth D. Whitney et al.   PLoS Genetics

SOAP2: an improved ultrafast tool for short read alignment

(2009) R. Li et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

DnaSP v5: a software for comprehensive analysis of DNA polymorphism data

(2009) P. Librado et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

BLAST+: architecture and applications

(2009) Christiam Camacho et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Nucleotide diversity of the Chlamydomonas reinhardtii plastid genome: addressing the mutational-hazard hypothesis

(2009) David Roy Smith et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Phylogenetic analysis of mitochondrial substitution rate variation in the angiosperm tribe Sileneae

(2009) Daniel B Sloan et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The mitochondrial and plastid genomes of Volvox carteri: bloated molecules rich in repetitive DNA

(2009) David Smith et al.   BMC GENOMICS

The single mitochondrial chromosome typical of animals has evolved into 18 minichromosomes in the human body louse, Pediculus humanus

(2009) R. Shao et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

The consequences of genetic drift for bacterial genome complexity

(2009) C.-H. Kuo et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Silene as a model system in ecology and evolution

(2009) G Bernasconi et al.   HEREDITY

Quantitative Prediction of Molecular Clock and Ka/Ks at Short Timescales

(2009) G. I. Peterson et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

A trans -splicing group I intron and tRNA-hyperediting in the mitochondrial genome of the lycophyte Isoetes engelmannii

(2009) Felix Grewe et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

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

Hybrid Origins and Homoploid Reticulate Evolution within Heliosperma (Sileneae, Caryophyllaceae)—A Multigene Phylogenetic Approach with Relative Dating

(2009) Božo Frajman et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Nucleotide diversity in the mitochondrial and nuclear compartments of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: investigating the origins of genome architecture

(2008) David R Smith et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The Effect of Breeding System on Polymorphism in Mitochondrial Genes of Silene

(2008) P. Touzet et al.   GENETICS

Population size and genome size in fishes: a closer look

(2008) T. Ryan Gregory et al.   GENOME

Two Circular Chromosomes of Unequal Copy Number Make Up the Mitochondrial Genome of the Rotifer Brachionus plicatilis

(2008) Koushirou Suga et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Mitochondrial Heteroplasmy and Paternal Leakage in Natural Populations of Silene vulgaris, a Gynodioecious Plant

(2008) Stephanie A. Pearl et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

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

Reticulate or tree-like chloroplast DNA evolution in Sileneae (Caryophyllaceae)?

(2008) Per Erixon et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Relative rates of synonymous substitutions in the mitochondrial, chloroplast and nuclear genomes of seed plants

(2008) G DROUIN et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION