Horizontal gene transfer (HGT; also known as lateral gene transfer) has had an important
role in eukaryotic genome evolution, but its importance is often overshadowed by the greater …

Many years of extensive studies of metazoan mitochondrial genomes have established
differences in gene arrangements and genetic codes as valuable phylogenetic markers …

Animal mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is commonly described as a small, circular molecule
that is conserved in size, gene content, and organization. Data collected in the last decade …

Recent advances in long-read sequencing technology have allowed for single-molecule
sequencing of entire mitochondrial genomes, opening the door for direct investigation of the …

Although black corals inhabit all the world's oceans, they have been relatively understudied
as∼ 185 of 247 species occur at depths> 50 m. Antipatharians have been included in …

In eukaryotes, introns are located in nuclear and organelle genes from several kingdoms.
Large introns (up to 5 kbp) are frequent in mitochondrial genomes of plant and fungi but …

Gene families, which encode toxins, are found in many poisonous animals, yet there is
limited understanding of their evolution at the nucleotide level. The release of the genome …

Plasmodial slime molds are members of the class Amoebozoa forming elaborate fruit bodies
releasing airborne spores. Two species concepts have been developed independently: a …

The frequency of horizontal gene transfer (HGT) in mitochondrial DNA varies substantially.
In plants, HGT is relatively common, whereas in animals it appears to be quite rare. It is of …

Octocoral mitochondrial (mt) DNA is subject to an exceptionally low rate of substitution, and
it has been suggested that mt genome content and structure are conserved across the …