The central dogma in biology defines the flow of genetic information from DNA to RNA to
protein. Accordingly, RNA molecules generally accurately follow the sequences of the genes …

The study of reproductive isolation and species barriers frequently focuses on mitochondrial
genomes and has produced two alternative and almost diametrically opposed narratives. On …

Plant mitochondrial genomes are usually assembled and displayed as circular maps based
on the widely-held view across the broad community of life scientists that circular genome …

Mitochondrial and plastid genomes show a wide array of architectures, varying immensely in
size, structure, and content. Some organelle DNAs have even developed elaborate …

Despite the enormous diversity among parasitic angiosperms in form and structure, life-
history strategies, and plastid genomes, little is known about the diversity of their …

Background Suaeda glauca (S. glauca) is a halophyte widely distributed in saline and sandy
beaches, with strong saline-alkali tolerance. It is also admired as a landscape plant with …

We report the complete mitochondrial genome sequence of the flowering plant Amborella
trichopoda. This enormous, 3.9-megabase genome contains six genome equivalents of …

The mitochondrion stands at the center of cell energy metabolism. It contains its own
genome, the mtDNA, that is a relic of its prokaryotic symbiotic ancestor. In plants, the …

Plant mitochondrial genomes have excessive size relative to coding capacity, a low mutation
rate in genes and a high rearrangement rate. They also have abundant non-tandem repeats …

Mitochondrial genomes (mitogenomes) of flowering plants are well known for their extreme
diversity in size, structure, gene content, and rates of sequence evolution and …