Article
Intraspecific variation in mitochondrial genome sequence, structure, and gene content in Silene vulgaris, an angiosperm with pervasive cytoplasmic male sterility.
The New phytologist - 1 Dec 2012
Sloan Daniel B, Müller Karel, McCauley David E, Taylor Douglas R, Štorchová Helena
Abstract excerpt
In angiosperms, mitochondrial-encoded genes can cause cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS), resulting in the coexistence of female and hermaphroditic individuals (gynodioecy). We compared four complete mitochondrial genomes from the gynodioecious species Silene vulgaris and found unprecedented amounts of intraspecific diversity for plant mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). Remarkably, only about half of overall sequence...
Topics
- Cytoplasm
- DNA, Intergenic
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Genetic Variation
- Genome, Mitochondrial
- Genome, Plant
- Molecular Sequence Annotation
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
- Recombination, Genetic
- Silene