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The mitochondrial DNA of land plants: peculiarities in phylogenetic perspective.
Current genetics - 1 Sept 2004
Knoop Volker
Abstract excerpt
Land plants exhibit a significant evolutionary plasticity in their mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), which contrasts with the more conservative evolution of their chloroplast genomes. Frequent genomic rearrangements, the incorporation of foreign DNA from the nuclear and chloroplast genomes, an ongoing transfer of genes to the nucleus in recent evolutionary times and the disruption of gene continuity in introns or exons...
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