Rock, scissors, paper: How RNA structure informs function

SM Assmann, HL Chou, PC Bevilacqua - The Plant Cell, 2023 - academic.oup.com
RNA can fold back on itself to adopt a wide range of structures. These range from relatively
simple hairpins to intricate 3D folds and can be accompanied by regulatory interactions with …

Invited Review Beyond parasitic convergence: unravelling the evolution of the organellar genomes in holoparasites

MV Sanchez-Puerta, LF Ceriotti… - Annals of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Background The molecular evolution of organellar genomes in angiosperms has been
studied extensively, with some lineages, such as parasitic ones, displaying unique …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Mitochondrial Genome Sequence of Salvia officinalis (Lamiales: Lamiaceae) Suggests Diverse Genome Structures in Cogeneric Species and Finds the Stop …

H Yang, H Chen, Y Ni, J Li, Y Cai, J Wang… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Our previous study was the first to confirm that the predominant conformation of
mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) sequence of Salvia species contains two circular …

The Mitochondrial Genome of the Holoparasitic Plant Thonningia sanguinea Provides Insights into the Evolution of the Multichromosomal Structure

S Zhou, N Wei, M Jost, S Wanke, M Rees… - Genome Biology and …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Multichromosomal mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) structures have repeatedly evolved
in many lineages of angiosperms. However, the underlying mechanism remains unclear …

Intracellular gene transfer and codon usage of cytoplasmic genomes in green plants

TT Zhang, YY Zhang, XL Wang… - Botanical Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Intracellular gene transfer is widely recognized as one of the most important driving forces
for species evolution. Here we investigated transferred cytoplasmic motifs in green plants …

Evolution of cox2 introns in angiosperm mitochondria and efficient splicing of an elongated cox2i691 intron

AA Edera, KA Howell, PG Nevill, I Small… - Gene, 2023 - Elsevier
In angiosperms, the mitochondrial cox2 gene harbors up to two introns, commonly referred
to as cox2i373 and cox2i691. We studied the cox2 from 222 fully-sequenced mitogenomes …