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Dynamic evolution of plant mitochondrial genomes: mobile genes and introns and highly variable mutation rates.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 20 Jun 2000
Palmer J D, Adams K L, Cho Y, Parkinson C L, Qiu Y L, Song K
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We summarize our recent studies showing that angiosperm mitochondrial (mt) genomes have experienced remarkably high rates of gene loss and concomitant transfer to the nucleus and of intron acquisition by horizontal transfer. Moreover, we find substantial lineage-specific variation in rates of these structural mutations and also point mutations. These findings mostly arise from a Southern blot survey of gene and...
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