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RNA editing in gymnosperms and its impact on the evolution of the mitochondrial coxI gene.
Plant molecular biology - 1 May 1998
Lu M Z, Szmidt A E, Wang X R
Abstract excerpt
Sequence analysis of the mitochondrial coxI gene in eight gymnosperm species revealed a high rate of nonsynonymous nucleotide substitutions with a strong (98%) predominance of C-T substitutions. Further analysis of the corresponding coxI cDNA sequences showed that all the non-synonymous C-T changes in the coxI genomic DNA sequences were eliminated by RNA editing resulting in nearly identical mRNA (amino acid)...
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