Extreme genome reduction in symbiotic bacteria

JP McCutcheon, NA Moran - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2012 - nature.com
Since 2006, numerous cases of bacterial symbionts with extraordinarily small genomes
have been reported. These organisms represent independent lineages from diverse …

Horizontal gene transfer in eukaryotic evolution

PJ Keeling, JD Palmer - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2008 - nature.com
Horizontal gene transfer (HGT; also known as lateral gene transfer) has had an important
role in eukaryotic genome evolution, but its importance is often overshadowed by the greater …

OrganellarGenomeDRAW—a suite of tools for generating physical maps of plastid and mitochondrial genomes and visualizing expression data sets

M Lohse, O Drechsel, S Kahlau… - Nucleic acids research, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Mitochondria and plastids (chloroplasts) are cell organelles of endosymbiotic origin that
possess their own genetic information. Most organellar DNAs map as circular double …

Mitochondrial evolution

MW Gray - Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology, 2012 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Viewed through the lens of the genome it contains, the mitochondrion is of unquestioned
bacterial ancestry, originating from within the bacterial phylum α-Proteobacteria …

[HTML][HTML] Pattern and timing of diversification of Cetartiodactyla (Mammalia, Laurasiatheria), as revealed by a comprehensive analysis of mitochondrial genomes

A Hassanin, F Delsuc, A Ropiquet, C Hammer… - Comptes rendus …, 2012 - Elsevier
The order Cetartiodactyla includes cetaceans (whales, dolphins and porpoises) that are
found in all oceans and seas, as well as in some rivers, and artiodactyls (ruminants, pigs …

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 …

[BOOK][B] Evolution: a view from the 21st century

JA Shapiro - 2011 - books.google.com
James A. Shapiro proposes an important new paradigm for understanding biological
evolution, the core organizing principle of biology. Shapiro introduces crucial new molecular …

Mitochondria as a target of environmental toxicants

JN Meyer, MCK Leung, JP Rooney… - toxicological …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Enormous strides have recently been made in our understanding of the biology and
pathobiology of mitochondria. Many diseases have been identified as caused by …

Incorporating molecular evolution into phylogenetic analysis, and a new compilation of conserved polymerase chain reaction primers for animal mitochondrial DNA

C Simon, TR Buckley, F Frati, JB Stewart… - Annu. Rev. Ecol …, 2006 - annualreviews.org
DNA data has been widely used in animal phylogenetic studies over the past 15 years. Here
we review how these studies have used advances in knowledge of molecular evolutionary …

Mitochondrial and plastid genome architecture: reoccurring themes, but significant differences at the extremes

DR Smith, PJ Keeling - Proceedings of the National …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Mitochondrial and plastid genomes show a wide array of architectures, varying immensely in
size, structure, and content. Some organelle DNAs have even developed elaborate …