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Evolution of mitochondrial gene content: gene loss and transfer to the nucleus.
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution - 1 Dec 2003
Adams Keith L, Palmer Jeffrey D
Abstract excerpt
Mitochondrial gene content is highly variable across extant eukaryotes. The number of mitochondrial protein genes varies from 3 to 67, while tRNA gene content varies from 0 to 27. Moreover, these numbers exclude the many diverse lineages of non-respiring eukaryotes that lack a mitochondrial genome yet still contain a mitochondrion, albeit one often highly derived in ultrastructure and metabolic function, such as...
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