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Determination of the melon chloroplast and mitochondrial genome sequences reveals that the largest reported mitochondrial genome in plants contains a significant amount of DNA having a nuclear origin.
BMC genomics - 20 Aug 2011
Rodríguez-Moreno Luis, González Víctor M, Benjak Andrej, Martí M Carmen, Puigdomènech Pere, Aranda Miguel A, Garcia-Mas Jordi
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BACKGROUND: The melon belongs to the Cucurbitaceae family, whose economic importance among vegetable crops is second only to Solanaceae. The melon has a small genome size (454 Mb), which makes it suitable for molecular and genetic studies. Despite similar nuclear and chloroplast genome sizes, cucurbits show great variation when their mitochondrial genomes are compared. The melon possesses the largest plant...
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