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Is plant mitochondrial RNA editing a source of phylogenetic incongruence? An answer from in silico and in vivo data sets.
BMC bioinformatics - 26 Mar 2008
Picardi Ernesto, Quagliariello Carla
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: In plant mitochondria, the post-transcriptional RNA editing process converts C to U at a number of specific sites of the mRNA sequence and usually restores phylogenetically conserved codons and the encoded amino acid residues. Sites undergoing RNA editing evolve at a higher rate than sites not modified by the process. As a result, editing sites strongly affect the evolution of plant mitochondrial...
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