Extensive horizontal transfer and homologous recombination generate highly chimeric mitochondrial genomes in yeast

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 2559-2570

  Wu, Baojun ^a   Buljic, Adnan ^a   Hao, Weilong ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

gene conversion; horizontal gene transfer; mitochondrial fusion

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CROSS; HETEROKARYON; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; INTRON; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; SACCHAROMYCES; TURNOVER TIME; CHIMERA; FUNGAL GENE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHIMERA; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84943421780     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msv127     Document Type: Article

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