Article
Independent transfer of mitochondrial chromosomes and plasmids during unstable vegetative fusion in Neurospora.
Nature - 10 May 1990
Collins R A, Saville B J
Abstract excerpt
The sporadic distribution of similar introns in organelle, nuclear ribosomal RNA and bacteriophage genes suggests that at least some of these introns are mobile genetic elements. Some plasmids in fungal mitochondria contain intron-like sequences and, like introns, they have scattered distributions within and among species. The occurrence and evolutionary importance of such horizontal transfer of DNA, not only...
Topics
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Deoxyribonuclease EcoRI
- Genotype
- Neurospora
- Neurospora crassa
- Nucleic Acid Hybridization
- Plasmids
- Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
- Recombination, Genetic