Relative rates of synonymous substitutions in the mitochondrial, chloroplast and nuclear genomes of seed plants.

doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2008.09.009

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Relative rates of synonymous substitutions in the mitochondrial, chloroplast and nuclear genomes of seed plants.

Molecular phylogenetics and evolution - 1 Dec 2008

Drouin Guy, Daoud Hanane, Xia Junnan

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Previous studies have estimated that, in angiosperms, the synonymous substitution rate of chloroplast genes is three times higher than that of mitochondrial genes and that of nuclear genes is twelve times higher than that of mitochondrial genes. Here we used 12 genes in 27 seed plant species to investigate whether these relative rates of substitutions are common to diverse seed plant groups. We find that the...

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Chloroplasts
Cycadopsida
DNA, Chloroplast
DNA, Complementary
DNA, Mitochondrial
DNA, Plant
Evolution, Molecular
Genes, Plant
Genome, Chloroplast
Genome, Mitochondrial
Genome, Plant

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Magnoliopsida

Mitochondria

Models, Genetic

Mutation

Phylogeny

Sequence Alignment

Sequence Analysis, DNA

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PMID: 18838124
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.09.009

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