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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
Abstract excerpt
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 exceptions, chloroplast genomes are highly conserved in size and gene arrangement, whereas mitochondrial genomes vary...
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