Extensive Shifts from Cis- to Trans-splicing of Gymnosperm Mitochondrial Introns

W Guo, A Zhu, W Fan, RP Adams… - Molecular Biology and …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Hundreds of plant mitogenomes have been sequenced from angiosperms, but relatively few
mitogenomes are available from its sister lineage, gymnosperms. To examine mitogenomic …

Variation in protein gene and intron content among land plant mitogenomes

JP Mower - Mitochondrion, 2020 - Elsevier
The functional content of the mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) is highly diverse across
eukaryotes. Among land plants, our understanding of the variation in mitochondrial gene …

Shifts from cis-to trans-splicing of five mitochondrial introns in Tolypanthus maclurei

R Yu, C Sun, Y Liu, R Zhou - PeerJ, 2021 - peerj.com
Shifts from cis-to trans-splicing of mitochondrial introns tend to correlate with relative
genome rearrangement rates during vascular plant evolution, as is particularly apparent in …

The complete mitochondrial genome of Taxus cuspidata (Taxaceae): eight protein-coding genes have transferred to the nuclear genome

SL Kan, TT Shen, P Gong, JH Ran, XQ Wang - BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2020 - Springer
Background Gymnosperms represent five of the six lineages of seed plants. However, most
sequenced plant mitochondrial genomes (mitogenomes) have been generated for …

Molecular evolution of angiosperm mitochondrial introns and exons

J Laroche, P Li, L Maggia… - Proceedings of the …, 1997 - National Acad Sciences
Numbers of substitutions per site for 15 protein-coding genes and six introns of the plant
mitochondria were estimated to compare modes and tempos of evolution between exons …

Complete mitochondrial genomes from the ferns Ophioglossum californicum and Psilotum nudum are highly repetitive with the largest organellar introns

W Guo, A Zhu, W Fan, JP Mower - New Phytologist, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Currently, complete mitochondrial genomes (mitogenomes) are available from all major land
plant lineages except ferns. Sequencing of fern mitogenomes could shed light on the major …

Ginkgo and Welwitschia Mitogenomes Reveal Extreme Contrasts in Gymnosperm Mitochondrial Evolution

W Guo, F Grewe, W Fan, GJ Young… - Molecular Biology …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Mitochondrial genomes (mitogenomes) of flowering plants are well known for their extreme
diversity in size, structure, gene content, and rates of sequence evolution and …

Trans-splicing group II introns in plant mitochondria: the complete set of cis-arranged homologs in ferns, fern allies, and a hornwort

O Malek, V Knoop - Rna, 1998 - cambridge.org
The fragmentation of group II introns without concomitant loss of splicing competence is
illustrated by extraordinary gene arrangements in plant mitochondrial genomes. The …

Plant mitochondrial genome diversity: the genomics revolution

JP Mower, DB Sloan, AJ Alverson - Plant genome diversity volume 1: plant …, 2012 - Springer
Mitochondrial genomes are remarkably diverse among green plants, and the explosion of
genome sequencing over the last 30 years has greatly expanded our understanding of this …

The mitochondrial genome sequence of Abies alba Mill. reveals a high structural and combinatorial variation

B Kersten, C Rellstab, H Schroeder, S Brodbeck… - BMC genomics, 2022 - Springer
Background Plant mitogenomes vary widely in size and genomic architecture. Although
hundreds of plant mitogenomes of angiosperm species have already been sequence …