Rapid evolution of enormous, multichromosomal genomes in flowering plant mitochondria with exceptionally high mutation rates

PLoS Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Sloan, Daniel B ^a,e   Alverson, Andrew J ^b   Chuckalovcak, John P ^a   Wu, Martin ^a   McCauley, David E ^c   Palmer, Jeffrey D ^d   Taylor, Douglas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; CELL ORGANELLE; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOWERING; GENE CONVERSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOME SIZE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PLANT GENOME; SILENE; FLOWER; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; INDEL MUTATION; INHERITANCE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT GENE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; SILENE;

MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; NUCLEOTIDE; PLANT RNA; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FLOWERS; GENES, PLANT; GENOME SIZE; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENOME, PLANT; INDEL MUTATION; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION RATE; NUCLEOTIDES; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RNA, PLANT; SILENE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84856483430     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001241     Document Type: Article

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