… gene again can be attributed to the large number of intron insertions. This study reports the
first mitochondrial genome … mechanisms that can lead to mitochondrial genome expansion. …

… Although intron proliferation is the main cause of plastid and mitochondrial genome
expansion in red algae, we do not observe recent intron transfer between different organelles. …

… , intronic, intergenic, and RNA gene region proportions of the entire mitochondrial genomes
of … The bottom panel shows the contribution of different gene regions to the size expansion of …

… from the expansion of intergenic DNA and proliferation of introns. Inflated mitochondrial
genomes in … proteins, differ between the genomes of mitochondria and chloroplasts, reducing the …

… advance understanding of group II intron spread, we studied the intron-rich mitochondrial …
the largest red algal mitochondrial genomes described thus far. The unusual size expansion of …

… We report the complete mitochondrial genomes of four closely related fungal species. … ,
three of the mt genomes expanded significantly due to an invasion of introns into three genes (…

… sequencing over the last 30 years has greatly expanded our understanding of this diversity.
… This intron is absent from the mitochondrial genomes of the other 29 sequenced flowering …

… mitochondrial genomes. By contrast, in general, group II introns are uncommon, except in
plant mitochondrial … the expanded and validated set of mitochondrial group I introns described …

… mitochondrial genome shows extensive rearrangement of its structural organization (2). This
slow rate of evolution has made mitochondrial gene … of plant mitochondrial gene sequences…

… In this study, expanded taxon sampling in Geraniaceae was performed to examine gene/intron
content in mitogenomes of 25 Geraniaceae species from all six genera in the family, …