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

Small inverted repeats drive mitochondrial genome evolution in Lake Baikal sponges

(2012) Dennis V. Lavrov et al.   GENE

Widespread atypical mitochondrial DNA structure in isopods (Crustacea, Peracarida) related to a constitutive heteroplasmy in terrestrial species

(2012) Vincent Doublet et al.   GENOME

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

(2012) Oliver Voigt et al.   PLoS One

Global Diversity of Sponges (Porifera)

(2012) Rob W. M. Van Soest et al.   PLoS One

ProtTest 3: fast selection of best-fit models of protein evolution

(2011) Diego Darriba et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

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 Mitochondrial Genome and Transcriptome of the Basal Dinoflagellate Hematodinium sp.: Character Evolution within the Highly Derived Mitochondrial Genomes of Dinoflagellates

(2011) C. J. Jackson et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Evolution of Linear Mitochondrial Genomes in Medusozoan Cnidarians

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

No longer Demospongiae: Homoscleromorpha formal nomination as a fourth class of Porifera

(2011) Eve Gazave et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

First evaluation of mitochondrial DNA as a marker for phylogeographic studies of Calcarea: a case study from Leucetta chagosensis

(2011) Oliver Voigt et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

The complete mitochondrial genome of the verongid sponge Aplysina cauliformis: implications for DNA barcoding in demosponges

(2011) Erik A. Sperling et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

The mitochondrial genome of stygobitic sponge Eunapius subterraneus: mtDNA is highly conserved in freshwater sponges

(2011) Bruna Pleše et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

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

(2011) Walker Pett et al.   Mitochondrial DNA

Rooting the Eukaryotic Tree with Mitochondrial and Bacterial Proteins

(2011) R. Derelle 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

Evolution of linear chromosomes and multipartite genomes in yeast mitochondria

(2011) Matus Valach et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Phylogenetic signal in the evolution of body colour and spicule skeleton in calcareous sponges

(2011) ANDRÉ LINHARES ROSSI et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Resolving Difficult Phylogenetic Questions: Why More Sequences Are Not Enough

(2011) Hervé Philippe et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

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

(2010) Coren A Milbury et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Automated Removal of Noisy Data in Phylogenomic Analyses

(2010) Vadim V. Goremykin et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

Improved Phylogenomic Taxon Sampling Noticeably Affects Nonbilaterian Relationships

(2010) K. S. Pick et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

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

(2010) Eve Gazave et al.   PLoS One

Two forms of RNA editing are required for tRNA maturation in Physarum mitochondria

(2010) J. M. Gott et al.   RNA

Dinoflagellate mitochondrial genomes: stretching the rules of molecular biology

(2009) Ross F. Waller et al.   BIOESSAYS

Infernal 1.0: inference of RNA alignments

(2009) E. P. Nawrocki et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

PhyloBayes 3: a Bayesian software package for phylogenetic reconstruction and molecular dating

(2009) Nicolas Lartillot et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

The mitochondrial genomes of sponges provide evidence for multiple invasions by Repetitive Hairpin-forming Elements (RHE)

(2009) Dirk Erpenbeck et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Phylogenomics Revives Traditional Views on Deep Animal Relationships

(2009) Hervé Philippe et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

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

ABySS: A parallel assembler for short read sequence data

(2009) J. T. Simpson et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Phylogenetic-Signal Dissection of Nuclear Housekeeping Genes Supports the Paraphyly of Sponges and the Monophyly of Eumetazoa

(2009) E. A. Sperling et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Rapid Proliferation of Repetitive Palindromic Elements in mtDNA of the Endemic Baikalian Sponge Lubomirskia baicalensis

(2009) Dennis V. Lavrov   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Fossil steroids record the appearance of Demospongiae during the Cryogenian period

(2009) Gordon D. Love et al.   NATURE

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

(2009) Gertraud Burger et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

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

Recent developments in the MAFFT multiple sequence alignment program

(2008) K. Katoh et al.   BRIEFINGS IN BIOINFORMATICS

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

(2008) Ehsan Kayal et al.   GENE

Mitochondrial genome of Suberites domuncula: Palindromes and inverted repeats are abundant in non-coding regions

(2008) Lada Lukić-Bilela et al.   GENE

A Site- and Time-Heterogeneous Model of Amino Acid Replacement

(2008) Samuel Blanquart et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

An Improved General Amino Acid Replacement Matrix

(2008) S. Q. Le et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The complete mitochondrial genome of the demosponge Negombata magnifica (Poecilosclerida)

(2008) Frida Belinky et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

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

(2008) Xiujuan Wang et al.   PLoS One