… Many years of extensive studies of metazoan mitochondrial genomes have established
differences in gene arrangements and genetic codes as valuable phylogenetic markers. …

… This review surveys issues pertaining to mitochondrial genome evolution … the mitochondrial
and nuclear genomes of eukaryotic cells. Wefirst discuss how mitochondrial genomics (the …

… approach indicate that the evolution of the human mitochondrial noncoding D-loop is both
… The nucleotide sequence of the D-loop region of the mitochondrial genome was determined …

… We evaluate the adaptive evolution of 12 protein-coding mitochondrial genes in 41
placental mammalian species by assessing amino acid sequence variation and exploring the …

… mitochondrial genome size by a currently unknown mechanism. After a brief description of
the angiosperm mitochondrial genome, … and alteration of the genome. In both processes, the …

… genome from which contemporary mitochondrial genomes … mitochondrial genome has
evolved to become recombinationally active (a condition that promotes extensive genomic …

Plant mitochondrial genomes are notorious for their large and variable size, nonconserved
open reading frames of unknown function, and high rates of rearrangement. Paradoxically, …

… highlights the divergent trends in mitochondrial genome evolution in the various eukaryotic
… between mitochondrial and nuclear genome evolution in a given organism. Mitochondria, the …

… in mitochondrial genome evolution, then we predict that mitochondrial genomes should …
extensive signaling takes place between mitochondrial and nuclear genomes (3) and that …

… Similarly, plant mitochondria are also … evolution of these peculiar features is discussed in
the framework of our modern understanding of plant phylogeny to which mitochondrial genome …