The “fossilized” mitochondrial genome of Liriodendron tulipifera: ancestral gene content and order, ancestral editing sites, and extraordinarily low mutation rate

AO Richardson, DW Rice, GJ Young, AJ Alverson… - BMC biology, 2013 - Springer
Background The mitochondrial genomes of flowering plants vary greatly in size, gene
content, gene order, mutation rate and level of RNA editing. However, the narrow …

The complete mitochondrial genome of the early flowering plant Nymphaea colorata is highly repetitive with low recombination

S Dong, C Zhao, F Chen, Y Liu, S Zhang, H Wu… - Bmc Genomics, 2018 - Springer
Background Mitochondrial genomes of flowering plants (angiosperms) are highly dynamic in
genome structure. The mitogenome of the earliest angiosperm Amborella is remarkable in …

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 …

The draft mitochondrial genome of Magnolia biondii and mitochondrial phylogenomics of angiosperms

S Dong, L Chen, Y Liu, Y Wang, S Zhang, L Yang… - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
The mitochondrial genomes of flowering plants are well known for their large size, variable
coding-gene set and fluid genome structure. The available mitochondrial genomes of the …

De novo Assembly and Comparative Analyses of Mitochondrial Genomes in Piperales

R Yu, X Chen, L Long, M Jost, R Zhao… - Genome biology and …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The mitochondrial genome of Liriodendron tulipifera exhibits many ancestral angiosperm
features and a remarkably slow evolutionary rate, while mitochondrial genomes of other …

Extensive loss of translational genes in the structurally dynamic mitochondrial genome of the angiosperm Silene latifolia

DB Sloan, AJ Alverson, H Štorchová, JD Palmer… - BMC Evolutionary …, 2010 - Springer
Background Mitochondrial gene loss and functional transfer to the nucleus is an ongoing
process in many lineages of plants, resulting in substantial variation across species in …

Angiosperm mitochondrial genomes and mutations

T Kubo, KJ Newton - Mitochondrion, 2008 - Elsevier
Flowering plants harbor the largest mitochondrial genomes reported so far. At present, the
nucleotide sequences of 15 mitochondrial genomes from seven angiosperm species are …

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 …

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 …

History of plastid DNA insertions reveals weak deletion and at mutation biases in angiosperm mitochondrial genomes

DB Sloan, Z Wu - Genome biology and evolution, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Angiosperm mitochondrial genomes exhibit many unusual properties, including
heterogeneous nucleotide composition and exceptionally large and variable genome sizes …