Mutation Rates in Plastid Genomes: They Are Lower than You Might Think

Massive and Widespread Organelle Genomic Expansion in the Green Algal Genus Dunaliella

(2015) Michael Del Vasto et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

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

A 400,000-year-old mitochondrial genome questions phylogenetic relationships amongst archaic hominins

(2014) Ludovic Orlando   BIOESSAYS

Correlation between sequence divergence and polymorphism reveals similar evolutionary mechanisms acting across multiple timescales in a rapidly evolving plastid genome

(2014) Karen B Barnard-Kubow et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

A pangenomic analysis of the Nannochloropsis organellar genomes reveals novel genetic variations in key metabolic genes

(2014) Shawn R Starkenburg et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Unprecedented Heterogeneity in the Synonymous Substitution Rate within a Plant Genome

(2014) Andan Zhu et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Nucleotide substitution analyses of the glaucophyte Cyanophora suggest an ancestrally lower mutation rate in plastid vs mitochondrial DNA for the Archaeplastida

(2014) David Roy Smith et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Molecular markers from different genomic compartments reveal cryptic diversity within glaucophyte species

(2014) Jasmine Chong et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Fifty thousand years of Arctic vegetation and megafaunal diet

(2014) Eske Willerslev et al.   NATURE

A barcode of organellar genome polymorphisms identifies the geographic origin of Plasmodium falciparum strains

(2014) Mark D. Preston et al.   Nature Communications

The Marine Microbial Eukaryote Transcriptome Sequencing Project (MMETSP): Illuminating the Functional Diversity of Eukaryotic Life in the Oceans through Transcriptome Sequencing

(2014) Patrick J. Keeling et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Multi-gene analysis ofSymbiodiniumdinoflagellates: a perspective on rarity, symbiosis, and evolution

(2014) Xavier Pochon et al.   PeerJ

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

RNA-Seq data: a goldmine for organelle research

(2013) D. R. Smith   Briefings in Functional Genomics

Plant Mitochondrial Genome Evolution Can Be Explained by DNA Repair Mechanisms

(2013) Alan C. Christensen   Genome Biology and Evolution

Genetic delineation between and within the widespread coccolithophore morpho-speciesEmiliania huxleyiandGephyrocapsa oceanica(Haptophyta)

(2013) El Mahdi Bendif et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Disproportional Plastome-Wide Increase of Substitution Rates and Relaxed Purifying Selection in Genes of Carnivorous Lentibulariaceae

(2013) Susann Wicke et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Massive difference in synonymous substitution rates among mitochondrial, plastid, and nuclear genes of Phaeocystis algae

(2013) David Roy Smith et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

An archaeal origin of eukaryotes supports only two primary domains of life

(2013) Tom A. Williams et al.   NATURE

Not seeing the genomes for the DNA

(2012) D. R. Smith   Briefings in Functional Genomics

Recent Acceleration of Plastid Sequence and Structural Evolution Coincides with Extreme Mitochondrial Divergence in the Angiosperm Genus Silene

(2012) Daniel B. Sloan et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Twenty-Fold Difference in Evolutionary Rates between the Mitochondrial and Plastid Genomes of Species with Secondary Red Plastids

(2012) David Roy Smith et al.   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

Relative rates of evolution among the three genetic compartments of the red alga Porphyra differ from those of green plants and do not correlate with genome architecture

(2012) David R. Smith et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

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

The evolution of the plastid chromosome in land plants: gene content, gene order, gene function

(2011) Susann Wicke et al.   PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Similar Relative Mutation Rates in the Three Genetic Compartments of Mesostigma and Chlamydomonas

(2011) Jimeng Hua et al.   PROTIST

Phylogenomic Evidence for Separate Acquisition of Plastids in Cryptophytes, Haptophytes, and Stramenopiles

(2010) D. Baurain et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The endosymbiotic origin, diversification and fate of plastids

(2010) P. J. Keeling   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Biofuels from algae: challenges and potential

(2010) Michael Hannon et al.   Biofuels-UK

Protein transport in organelles: Dual targeting of proteins to mitochondria and chloroplasts

(2009) Chris Carrie et al.   FEBS Journal

Green Evolution and Dynamic Adaptations Revealed by Genomes of the Marine Picoeukaryotes Micromonas

(2009) A. Z. Worden et al.   SCIENCE

Chloroplast genome sequencing analysis of Heterosigma akashiwo CCMP452 (West Atlantic) and NIES293 (West Pacific) strains

(2008) Rose Cattolico et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Genetic variation in bloom-forming ichthyotoxicPseudochattonellaspecies (Dictyochophyceae, Heterokonta) using nuclear, mitochondrial and plastid DNA sequence data

(2008) Ingvild Riisberg et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Rapidly Evolving Mitochondrial Genome and Directional Selection in Mitochondrial Genes in the Parasitic Wasp Nasonia (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae)

(2008) D. C. S. G. Oliveira et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 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

Apicoplast translation, transcription and genome replication: targets for antimalarial antibiotics

(2008) Erica L. Dahl et al.   TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY