Insect mitochondrial genomics: implications for evolution and phylogeny

SL Cameron - Annual review of entomology, 2014 - annualreviews.org
The mitochondrial (mt) genome is, to date, the most extensively studied genomic system in
insects, outnumbering nuclear genomes tenfold and representing all orders versus very few …

Evolution and inheritance of animal mitochondrial DNA: rules and exceptions

ED Ladoukakis, E Zouros - Journal of Biological Research-Thessaloniki, 2017 - Springer
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) has been studied intensely for “its own” merit. Its role for the
function of the cell and the organism remains a fertile field, its origin and evolution is an …

Rapid evolution of enormous, multichromosomal genomes in flowering plant mitochondria with exceptionally high mutation rates

DB Sloan, AJ Alverson, JP Chuckalovcak, M Wu… - PLoS …, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Genome size and complexity vary tremendously among eukaryotic species and their
organelles. Comparisons across deeply divergent eukaryotic lineages have suggested that …

Genome sequences of the human body louse and its primary endosymbiont provide insights into the permanent parasitic lifestyle

EF Kirkness, BJ Haas, W Sun… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
As an obligatory parasite of humans, the body louse (Pediculus humanus humanus) is an
important vector for human diseases, including epidemic typhus, relapsing fever, and trench …

How to sequence and annotate insect mitochondrial genomes for systematic and comparative genomics research

S Cameron - Systematic Entomology, 2014 - eprints.qut.edu.au
Over the past decade the mitochondrial (mt) genome has become the most widely used
genomic resource available for systematic entomology. While the availability of other types …

Genomic architectural variation of plant mitochondria—A review of multichromosomal structuring

ZQ Wu, XZ Liao, XN Zhang… - … of Systematics and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Since the endosymbiont origin from α‐Proteobacteria, mitochondrial genomes have
undergone extremely divergent evolutionary trajectories among eukaryotic lineages …

Inheritance through the cytoplasm

MF Camus, B Alexander-Lawrie, J Sharbrough… - Heredity, 2022 - nature.com
Most heritable information in eukaryotic cells is encoded in the nuclear genome, with
inheritance patterns following classic Mendelian segregation. Genomes residing in the …

Origins and recombination of the bacterial-sized multichromosomal mitochondrial genome of cucumber

AJ Alverson, DW Rice, S Dickinson, K Barry… - The Plant …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Members of the flowering plant family Cucurbitaceae harbor the largest known mitochondrial
genomes. Here, we report the 1685-kb mitochondrial genome of cucumber (Cucumis …

Genetic aspects of mitochondrial genome evolution

M Bernt, A Braband, B Schierwater… - Molecular phylogenetics …, 2013 - Elsevier
Many years of extensive studies of metazoan mitochondrial genomes have established
differences in gene arrangements and genetic codes as valuable phylogenetic markers …

Higher-level phylogeny of paraneopteran insects inferred from mitochondrial genome sequences

H Li, R Shao, N Song, F Song, P Jiang, Z Li, W Cai - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Mitochondrial (mt) genome data have been proven to be informative for animal phylogenetic
studies but may also suffer from systematic errors, due to the effects of accelerated …