Silene as a model system in ecology and evolution

G Bernasconi, J Antonovics, A Biere, D Charlesworth… - Heredity, 2009‏ - nature.com
The genus Silene, studied by Darwin, Mendel and other early scientists, is re-emerging as a
system for studying interrelated questions in ecology, evolution and developmental biology …

Heteroplasmy and stoichiometric complexity of plant mitochondrial genomes—though this be madness, yet there's method in't

M Woloszynska - Journal of experimental botany, 2010‏ - academic.oup.com
Mitochondrial heteroplasmy is defined as the coexistence of divergent mitochondrial
genotypes in a cell. The ratio of the alternative genomes may be variable, but in plants, the …

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 …

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 …

Recent Acceleration of Plastid Sequence and Structural Evolution Coincides with Extreme Mitochondrial Divergence in the Angiosperm Genus Silene

DB Sloan, AJ Alverson, M Wu… - Genome biology and …, 2012‏ - academic.oup.com
The angiosperm genus Silene exhibits some of the most extreme and rapid divergence ever
identified in mitochondrial genome architecture and nucleotide substitution rates. These …

Phylogenetic analysis of mitochondrial substitution rate variation in the angiosperm tribe Sileneae

DB Sloan, B Oxelman, A Rautenberg… - BMC Evolutionary …, 2009‏ - Springer
Background Recent phylogenetic studies have revealed that the mitochondrial genome of
the angiosperm Silene noctiflora (Caryophyllaceae) has experienced a massive mutation …

Paternal leakage, heteroplasmy, and the evolution of plant mitochondrial genomes

DE McCauley - New Phytologist, 2013‏ - Wiley Online Library
Plant mitochondrial genomes are usually transmitted to the progeny from the maternal
parent. However, cases of paternal transmission are known and are perhaps more common …

Intraspecific variation in mitochondrial genome sequence, structure, and gene content in Silene vulgaris, an angiosperm with pervasive cytoplasmic male sterility

DB Sloan, K Müller, DE McCauley, DR Taylor… - New …, 2012‏ - Wiley Online Library
In angiosperms, mitochondrial‐encoded genes can cause cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS),
resulting in the coexistence of female and hermaphroditic individuals (gynodioecy). We …

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 …

Large dataset of octocoral mitochondrial genomes provides new insights into mt-mutS evolution and function

V Muthye, CD Mackereth, JB Stewart, DV Lavrov - DNA repair, 2022‏ - Elsevier
All studied octocoral mitochondrial genomes (mt-genomes) contain a homologue of the
Escherichia coli mutS gene, a member of a gene family encoding proteins involved in DNA …