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

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 33, 2015, Pages 10177-10184

  Smith, David Roy ^a   Keeling, Patrick J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chloroplast; Endosymbiosis; Mitochondrial genome; Mitochondrion; Plastid genome

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME NUMBER; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DNA REPAIR; GENE MUTATION; GENE NUMBER; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC DRIFT; GENOME SIZE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; INTRON; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; PLASTID GENOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA EDITING; ANIMAL; CELL LINEAGE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOME; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; GENOME; GENOMICS; MUTATION; PLANT; PLASTID; POPULATION GENETICS; RNA PROCESSING; SYMBIOSIS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NUCLEOTIDE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOMES; DNA REPAIR; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDES; PLANTS; PLASTIDS; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84939650665     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1422049112     Document Type: Review

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