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

Cryptic tRNAs in chaetognath mitochondrial genomes

(2016) Roxane-Marie Barthélémy et al.   COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY

A Eukaryote without a Mitochondrial Organelle

(2016) Anna Karnkowska et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Extensive Mitochondrial mRNA Editing and Unusual Mitochondrial Genome Organization in Calcaronean Sponges

(2016) Dennis V. Lavrov et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Mitochondrial group I and group II introns in the sponge orders Agelasida and Axinellida

(2015) Dorothée Huchon et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

A novel mitochondrial genome architecture in thrips (Insecta: Thysanoptera): extreme size asymmetry among chromosomes and possible recent control region duplication

(2015) Aaron M. Dickey et al.   BMC GENOMICS

An Essential Role of the Mitochondrial Electron Transport Chain in Cell Proliferation Is to Enable Aspartate Synthesis

(2015) Kıvanç Birsoy et al.   CELL

Uncertainty in the Timing of Origin of Animals and the Limits of Precision in Molecular Timescales

(2015) Mario dos Reis et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The evolution of animal genomes

(2015) Casey W Dunn et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN GENETICS & DEVELOPMENT

A R ickettsiales symbiont of amoebae with ancient features

(2015) Frederik Schulz et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Proposal for a revised classification of the Demospongiae (Porifera)

(2015) Christine Morrow et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

The Utility of Genome Skimming for Phylogenomic Analyses as Demonstrated for Glycerid Relationships (Annelida, Glyceridae)

(2015) Sandy Richter et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Cytonuclear Interactions in the Evolution of Animal Mitochondrial tRNA Metabolism

(2015) Walker Pett et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

The Road To Cnidaria: History of Phylogeny of the Myxozoa

(2015) Jonathan Foox et al.   JOURNAL OF PARASITOLOGY

The human mitochondrial genome may code for more than 13 proteins

(2015) Charlotte Capt et al.   Mitochondrial DNA

Divergent Mitochondrial Respiratory Chains in Phototrophic Relatives of Apicomplexan Parasites

(2015) Pavel Flegontov et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The rate of adaptive evolution in animal mitochondria

(2015) Jennifer E. James et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Towards a comprehensive picture of alloacceptor tRNA remolding in metazoan mitochondrial genomes

(2015) Abdullah H. Sahyoun et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Mitochondrial and plastid genome architecture: Reoccurring themes, but significant differences at the extremes

(2015) David Roy Smith et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Genomic data do not support comb jellies as the sister group to all other animals

(2015) Davide Pisani et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Error, signal, and the placement of Ctenophora sister to all other animals

(2015) Nathan V. Whelan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Exploring the potential of small RNA subunit and ITS sequences for resolving phylogenetic relationships within the phylum Ctenophora

(2015) Paul Simion et al.   ZOOLOGY

A Rolling Circle Replication Mechanism Produces Multimeric Lariats of Mitochondrial DNA in Caenorhabditis elegans

(2015) Samantha C. Lewis et al.   PLoS Genetics

Phylogenetic analysis of higher-level relationships within Hydroidolina (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) using mitochondrial genome data and insight into their mitochondrial transcription

(2015) Ehsan Kayal et al.   PeerJ

Evolutionary Analysis of Mitogenomes from Parasitic and Free-Living Flatworms

(2015) Eduard Solà et al.   PLoS One

The Mitochondrial Genomes of a Myxozoan Genus Kudoa Are Extremely Divergent in Metazoa

(2015) Fumihiko Takeuchi et al.   PLoS One

Phylogenomic Analyses Support Traditional Relationships within Cnidaria

(2015) Felipe Zapata et al.   PLoS One

An integrated phylogenomic approach toward pinpointing the origin of mitochondria

(2015) Zhang Wang et al.   Scientific Reports

Mitochondria as signaling organelles

(2014) Navdeep S Chandel   BMC BIOLOGY

Fragmented mitochondrial genomes of the rat lice, Polyplax asiatica and Polyplax spinulosa: intra-genus variation in fragmentation pattern and a possible link between the extent of fragmentation and the length of life cycle

(2014) Wen-Ge Dong et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Octocoral Mitochondrial Genomes Provide Insights into the Phylogenetic History of Gene Order Rearrangements, Order Reversals, and Cnidarian Phylogenetics

(2014) D. F. Figueroa et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Chromera velia, Endosymbioses and the Rhodoplex Hypothesis—Plastid Evolution in Cryptophytes, Alveolates, Stramenopiles, and Haptophytes (CASH Lineages)

(2014) Jörn Petersen et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

A Mitochondrial Intron in a Verongid Sponge

(2014) Dirk Erpenbeck et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

New phylogenomic and comparative analyses provide corroborating evidence that Myxozoa is Cnidaria

(2014) Jin-Mei Feng et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Sea anemones possess dynamic mitogenome structures

(2014) Åse Emblem et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

The ctenophore genome and the evolutionary origins of neural systems

(2014) Leonid L. Moroz et al.   NATURE

What cost mitochondria? The maintenance of functional mitochondrial DNA within and across generations

(2014) D. K. Aanen et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Fast-Evolving Mitochondrial DNA in Ceriantharia: A Reflection of Hexacorallia Paraphyly?

(2014) Sérgio N. Stampar et al.   PLoS One

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

(2014) Sophie Breton et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Maternally transmitted mitochondrial DNA mutations can reduce lifespan

(2014) Jaime M. Ross et al.   Scientific Reports

Oxidative Stress Is Not a Major Contributor to Somatic Mitochondrial DNA Mutations

(2014) Leslie S. Itsara et al.   PLoS Genetics

Bacterial group I introns: mobile RNA catalysts

(2014) Georg Hausner et al.   Mobile DNA

The plant mitochondrial genome: Dynamics and maintenance

(2013) José M. Gualberto et al.   BIOCHIMIE

Comparative analysis of complete mitochondrial genome sequences confirms independent origins of plant-parasitic nematodes

(2013) Tahera Sultana et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Cnidarian phylogenetic relationships as revealed by mitogenomics

(2013) Ehsan Kayal et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Eight new mtDNA sequences of glass sponges reveal an extensive usage of +1 frameshifting in mitochondrial translation

(2013) Karri M. Haen et al.   GENE

Hallmarks of a new era in mitochondrial biochemistry

(2013) D. J. Pagliarini et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Substantial Variation in the Extent of Mitochondrial Genome Fragmentation among Blood-Sucking Lice of Mammals

(2013) Haowei Jiang et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Deep Sequencing of Mixed Total DNA without Barcodes Allows Efficient Assembly of Highly Plastic Ascidian Mitochondrial Genomes

(2013) Nimrod D. Rubinstein et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Strikingly Bacteria-Like and Gene-Rich Mitochondrial Genomes throughout Jakobid Protists

(2013) Gertraud Burger et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

RNA–DNA differences in human mitochondria restore ancestral form of 16S ribosomal RNA

(2013) Dan Bar-Yaacov et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

The Twin-Arginine Subunit C in Oscarella : Origin, Evolution, and Potential Functional Significance

(2013) Walker Pett et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

The Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance (GIGA): Developing Community Resources to Study Diverse Invertebrate Genomes

(2013)   JOURNAL OF HEREDITY

The complete mitochondrial genome ofHydra vulgaris(Hydroida: Hydridae)

(2013) Hong-Chun Pan et al.   Mitochondrial DNA

Complete mitochondrial genome of the monogonont rotifer,Brachionus koreanus(Rotifera, Brachionidae)

(2013) Dae-Sik Hwang et al.   Mitochondrial DNA

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

A comprehensive analysis of bilaterian mitochondrial genomes and phylogeny

(2013) Matthias Bernt et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Germline mitochondrial DNA mutations aggravate ageing and can impair brain development

(2013) Jaime M. Ross et al.   NATURE

Trans-splicing and RNA editing of LSU rRNA in Diplonema mitochondria

(2013) Matus Valach et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Agent of Whirling Disease Meets Orphan Worm: Phylogenomic Analyses Firmly Place Myxozoa in Cnidaria

(2013) Maximilian P. Nesnidal et al.   PLoS One

Global Diversity of the Placozoa

(2013) Michael Eitel et al.   PLoS One

PhyloBayes MPI: Phylogenetic Reconstruction with Infinite Mixtures of Profiles in a Parallel Environment

(2013) Nicolas Lartillot et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Ultra-Sensitive Sequencing Reveals an Age-Related Increase in Somatic Mitochondrial Mutations That Are Inconsistent with Oxidative Damage

(2013) Scott R. Kennedy et al.   PLoS Genetics

Complete mitochondrial DNA sequence of the ark shell Scapharca broughtonii: An ultra-large metazoan mitochondrial genome

(2012) Yun-Guo Liu et al.   Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology D-Genomics & Proteomics

Biparental Inheritance Through Uniparental Transmission: The Doubly Uniparental Inheritance (DUI) of Mitochondrial DNA

(2012) Eleftherios Zouros   Evolutionary Biology

The Mitochondrial Genome of Paraminabea aldersladei (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Octocorallia) Supports Intramolecular Recombination as the Primary Mechanism of Gene Rearrangement in Octocoral Mitochondrial Genomes

(2012) Stephanie A. Brockman et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Biochemistry and Evolution of Anaerobic Energy Metabolism in Eukaryotes

(2012) M. Muller et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

The evolution of the mitochondrial genetic code in arthropods revisited

(2012) Federico Abascal et al.   Mitochondrial DNA

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

Molecular Phylogenetic Evaluation of Classification and Scenarios of Character Evolution in Calcareous Sponges (Porifera, Class Calcarea)

(2012) Oliver Voigt et al.   PLoS One

The Multipartite Mitochondrial Genome of Liposcelis bostrychophila: Insights into the Evolution of Mitochondrial Genomes in Bilateral Animals

(2012) Dan-Dan Wei et al.   PLoS One

Drift-barrier hypothesis and mutation-rate evolution

(2012) W. Sung et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mitochondrial Genome of a Japanese Placozoan

(2012) Hideyuki Miyazawa et al.   ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Mitochondrial tRNA Import and Its Consequences for Mitochondrial Translation

(2011) André Schneider   Annual Review of Biochemistry

Probable presence of an ubiquitous cryptic mitochondrial gene on the antisense strand of the cytochrome oxidase I gene

(2011) Eric Faure et al.   Biology Direct

A unique horizontal gene transfer event has provided the octocoral mitochondrial genome with an active mismatch repair gene that has potential for an unusual self-contained function

(2011) Jaret P Bilewitch et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Mitochondrial genome deletions and minicircles are common in lice (Insecta: Phthiraptera)

(2011) Stephen L Cameron et al.   BMC GENOMICS

First Complete Mitochondrial Genome Sequence from a Box Jellyfish Reveals a Highly Fragmented Linear Architecture and Insights into Telomere Evolution

(2011) David Roy Smith et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

The Lower Bound to the Evolution of Mutation Rates

(2011) Michael Lynch   Genome Biology and Evolution

Evolution of Linear Mitochondrial Genomes in Medusozoan Cnidarians

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

Molecular phylogeny of glass sponges (Porifera, Hexactinellida): increased taxon sampling and inclusion of the mitochondrial protein-coding gene, cytochrome oxidase subunit I

(2011) Martin Dohrmann et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

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

(2011) Walker Pett et al.   Mitochondrial DNA

High Mutation Rates in the Mitochondrial Genomes of Daphnia pulex

(2011) S. Xu et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Extensive and Evolutionarily Persistent Mitochondrial tRNA Editing in Velvet Worms (Phylum Onychophora)

(2011) Romulo Segovia et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Rapid evolution of the compact and unusual mitochondrial genome in the ctenophore, Pleurobrachia bachei

(2011) Andrea B. Kohn et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Ultra-Deep Sequencing of Mouse Mitochondrial DNA: Mutational Patterns and Their Origins

(2011) Adam Ameur et al.   PLoS Genetics

Somatic Mitochondrial DNA Mutations in Mammalian Aging

(2010) Nils-Göran Larsson   Annual Review of Biochemistry

The Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution in the Genomic Era

(2010) Masatoshi Nei et al.   Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics

Mitochondrial phylogenomics of the Bivalvia (Mollusca): searching for the origin and mitogenomic correlates of doubly uniparental inheritance of mtDNA

(2010) Hélène Doucet-Beaupré et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Diversity of sponge mitochondrial introns revealed by cox 1 sequences of Tetillidae

(2010) Amir Szitenberg et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Fragmentation of the large subunit ribosomal RNA gene in oyster mitochondrial genomes

(2010) Coren A Milbury et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Gene recruitment – A common mechanism in the evolution of transfer RNA gene families

(2010) Xiujuan Wang et al.   GENE

Poly(T) Variation in Heteroderid Nematode Mitochondrial Genomes is Predominantly an Artefact of Amplification

(2010) Angelique H. Riepsamen et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

The mitochondrial genome of the pathogenic yeast Candida subhashii: GC-rich linear DNA with a protein covalently attached to the 5' termini

(2010) D. Fricova et al.   MICROBIOLOGY-SGM

Novel Protein Genes in Animal mtDNA: A New Sex Determination System in Freshwater Mussels (Bivalvia: Unionoida)?

(2010) Sophie Breton et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Parallel Loss of Nuclear-Encoded Mitochondrial Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases and mtDNA-Encoded tRNAs in Cnidaria

(2010) Karri M. Haen et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

A Phylogenetic Model for Investigating Correlated Evolution of Substitution Rates and Continuous Phenotypic Characters

(2010) N. Lartillot et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Limitations of mitochondrial gene barcoding in Octocorallia

(2010) CATHERINE S. McFADDEN et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Molecular Phylogeny Restores the Supra-Generic Subdivision of Homoscleromorph Sponges (Porifera, Homoscleromorpha)

(2010) Eve Gazave et al.   PLoS One

Adaptive evolution of energy metabolism genes and the origin of flight in bats

(2010) Y.-Y. Shen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Hungry Codons Promote Frameshifting in Human Mitochondrial Ribosomes

(2010) R. Temperley et al.   SCIENCE

Plasticity of Animal Genome Architecture Unmasked by Rapid Evolution of a Pelagic Tunicate

(2010) F. Denoeud et al.   SCIENCE

Evolution of the mutation rate

(2010) Michael Lynch   TRENDS IN GENETICS

The erratic mitochondrial clock: variations of mutation rate, not population size, affect mtDNA diversity across birds and mammals

(2009) Benoit Nabholz et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Tunicate mitogenomics and phylogenetics: peculiarities of the Herdmania momus mitochondrial genome and support for the new chordate phylogeny

(2009) Tiratha Singh et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Complete mitochondrial genome sequences of the three pelagic chaetognaths Sagitta nagae, Sagitta decipiens and Sagitta enflata

(2009) Hiroomi Miyamoto et al.   Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology D-Genomics & Proteomics

Evolution of the Mitochondrial Genome in Mammals Living at High Altitude: New Insights from a Study of the Tribe Caprini (Bovidae, Antilopinae)

(2009) Alexandre Hassanin et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

Hypervariability of Ascidian Mitochondrial Gene Order: Exposing the Myth of Deuterostome Organelle Genome Stability

(2009) Carmela Gissi et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

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

(2009) Gertraud Burger et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Phylogenetic placement of the enigmatic parasite, Polypodium hydriforme, within the Phylum Cnidaria

(2008) Nathaniel M Evans et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

A fragmented metazoan organellar genome: the two mitochondrial chromosomes of Hydra magnipapillata

(2008) Oliver Voigt et al.   BMC GENOMICS

The mitochondrial genome of the hexactinellid sponge Aphrocallistes vastus: Evidence for programmed translational frameshifting

(2008) Rafael D Rosengarten et al.   BMC GENOMICS

The mitochondrial genome of Hydra oligactis (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) sheds new light on animal mtDNA evolution and cnidarian phylogeny

(2008) Ehsan Kayal et al.   GENE

Poly(T) Variation Within Mitochondrial Protein-Coding Genes in Globodera (Nematoda: Heteroderidae)

(2008) Angelique H. Riepsamen et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

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

Group II Introns Break New Boundaries: Presence in a Bilaterian's Genome

(2008) Yvonne Vallès et al.   PLoS One

Seventeen New Complete mtDNA Sequences Reveal Extensive Mitochondrial Genome Evolution within the Demospongiae

(2008) Xiujuan Wang et al.   PLoS One

Direct Estimation of the Mitochondrial DNA Mutation Rate in Drosophila melanogaster

(2008) Cathy Haag-Liautard et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY