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Multiple major increases and decreases in mitochondrial substitution rates in the plant family Geraniaceae.
BMC evolutionary biology - 20 Dec 2005
Parkinson Christopher L, Mower Jeffrey P, Qiu Yin-Long, Shirk Andrew J, Song Keming, Young Nelson D, DePamphilis Claude W, Palmer Jeffrey D
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BACKGROUND: Rates of synonymous nucleotide substitutions are, in general, exceptionally low in plant mitochondrial genomes, several times lower than in chloroplast genomes, 10-20 times lower than in plant nuclear genomes, and 50-100 times lower than in many animal mitochondrial genomes. Several cases of moderate variation in mitochondrial substitution rates have been reported in plants, but these mostly involve...
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