Insights into the evolution of mitochondrial genome size from complete sequences of citrullus lanatus and cucurbita pepo (Cucurbitaceae)

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1436-1448

  Alverson, Andrew J ^a   Wei, Xiaoxin ^a,d   Rice, Danny W ^a   Stern, David B ^b   Barry, Kerrie ^c   Palmer, Jeffrey D ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service and Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research   (United States)

^c DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

Author keywords

Cucurbitaceae; Genome size; Mitochondria; Mutation rate; RNA editing

Indexed keywords

DNA; RNA;

ARTICLE; CHLOROPLAST; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENOME SIZE; HYPOTHESIS; INTRON; INTROSPECTION; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENOME; RNA EDITING; SQUASH; SYNTENY; WATERMELON;

CITRULLUS; CUCURBITA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENOME, PLANT; INTRONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA EDITING; RNA, TRANSFER;

CITRULLUS; CITRULLUS LANATUS; CITRULLUS LANATUS VAR. LANATUS; CUCURBITA; CUCURBITA PEPO; CUCURBITA PEPO VAR. MELOPEPO; CUCURBITACEAE; SPERMATOPHYTA;

EID: 77952837838     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msq029     Document Type: Article

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