Mitochondrial genome evolution in yeasts: an all-encompassing view

KC Freel, A Friedrich, J Schacherer - FEMS yeast research, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Mitochondria are important organelles that harbor their own genomes encoding a key set of
proteins that ensure respiration and provide the eukaryotic cell with energy. Recent …

High variability of mitochondrial gene order among fungi

G Aguileta, DM de Vienne, ON Ross… - Genome biology and …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
From their origin as an early alpha proteobacterial endosymbiont to their current state as
cellular organelles, large-scale genomic reorganization has taken place in the mitochondria …

The coevolution of fungal mitochondrial introns and their homing endonucleases (GIY-YIG and LAGLIDADG)

AH Megarioti, VN Kouvelis - Genome biology and evolution, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Fungal mitochondrial (mt) genomes exhibit great diversity in size which is partially attributed
to their variable intergenic regions and most importantly to the inclusion of introns within …

LTR retrotransposons in fungi

A Muszewska, M Hoffman-Sommer, M Grynberg - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Transposable elements with long terminal direct repeats (LTR TEs) are one of the best
studied groups of mobile elements. They are ubiquitous elements present in almost all …

The evolution of mitochondrial genomes in fungi

VN Kouvelis, AM Kortsinoglou, TY James - Evolution of Fungi and Fungal …, 2023 - Springer
Fungal mitochondrial (mt) genomes (mitogenomes) are diverse and highly variable both at
the inter-and intra-species level. While they contain a certain set of conserved genes …

Phylogenetic and biogeographic implications inferred by mitochondrial intergenic region analyses and ITS1-5.8 S-ITS2 of the entomopathogenic fungi Beauveria …

DV Ghikas, VN Kouvelis, MA Typas - BMC microbiology, 2010 - Springer
Background The entomopathogenic fungi of the genus Beauveria are cosmopolitan with a
variety of different insect hosts. The two most important species, B. bassiana and B …

Mitochondrial genomes reveal recombination in the presumed asexual Fusarium oxysporum species complex

B Brankovics, P van Dam, M Rep, GS de Hoog… - Bmc Genomics, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Background The Fusarium oxysporum species complex (FOSC) contains several
phylogenetic lineages. Phylogenetic studies identified two to three major clades within the …

Mt-rps3 is an ancient gene which provides insight into the evolution of fungal mitochondrial genomes

AG Korovesi, M Ntertilis, VN Kouvelis - Molecular phylogenetics and …, 2018 - Elsevier
The nuclear ribosomal protein S3 (Rps3) is implicated in the assembly of the ribosomal
small subunit. Fungi and plants present a gene copy in their mitochondrial (mt) genomes. An …

Comparative analysis of Fusarium mitochondrial genomes reveals a highly variable region that encodes an exceptionally large open reading frame

RM Al-Reedy, R Malireddy, CB Dillman… - Fungal Genetics and …, 2012 - Elsevier
The mitochondrial (mt) genomes of Fusarium verticillioides, Fusarium solani and Fusarium
graminearum were annotated and found to be 53.7, 63.0 and 95.7 kb in length, respectively …

Intron Derived Size Polymorphism in the Mitochondrial Genomes of Closely Related Chrysoporthe Species

AM Kanzi, BD Wingfield, ET Steenkamp, S Naidoo… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
In this study, the complete mitochondrial (mt) genomes of Chrysoporthe austroafricana
(190,834 bp), C. cubensis (89,084 bp) and C. deuterocubensis (124,412 bp) were …