Contrasting modes and tempos of genome evolution in land plant organelles.

doi:10.1016/0168-9525(90)90125-p

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Contrasting modes and tempos of genome evolution in land plant organelles.

Trends in genetics : TIG - 1 Apr 1990

Palmer J D

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Despite inhabiting the same cell lineage for roughly a billion years and being dependent on the same nucleus for most of their gene products and genetic control, the two organelle genomes of land plants exhibit remarkably different tempos and patterns of evolutionary change. With a few notable ex...

Topics

Biological Evolution
Chloroplasts
Chromosome Mapping
DNA, Mitochondrial
Genomic Library
Mutation
Organelles
Plants

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