Endosymbiotic gene transfer: organelle genomes forge eukaryotic chromosomes

JN Timmis, MA Ayliffe, CY Huang, W Martin - Nature reviews genetics, 2004 - nature.com
Genome sequences reveal that a deluge of DNA from organelles has constantly been
bombarding the nucleus since the origin of organelles. Recent experiments have shown that …

Horizontal gene transfer in eukaryotic evolution

PJ Keeling, JD Palmer - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2008 - nature.com
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 …

The alternative reality of plant mitochondrial DNA: One ring does not rule them all

A Kozik, BA Rowan, D Lavelle, L Berke… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Plant mitochondrial genomes are usually assembled and displayed as circular maps based
on the widely-held view across the broad community of life scientists that circular genome …

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

DB Sloan, AJ Alverson, JP Chuckalovcak, M Wu… - PLoS …, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Genome size and complexity vary tremendously among eukaryotic species and their
organelles. Comparisons across deeply divergent eukaryotic lineages have suggested that …

Genes in conflict: the biology of selfish genetic elements

A Burt, R Trivers - Genes in Conflict, 2009 - degruyter.com
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Analysis of 81 genes from 64 plastid genomes resolves relationships in angiosperms and identifies genome-scale evolutionary patterns

RK Jansen, Z Cai, LA Raubeson… - Proceedings of the …, 2007 - National Acad Sciences
Angiosperms are the largest and most successful clade of land plants with> 250,000 species
distributed in nearly every terrestrial habitat. Many phylogenetic studies have been based on …

Miniaturized mitogenome of the parasitic plant Viscum scurruloideum is extremely divergent and dynamic and has lost all nad genes

E Skippington, TJ Barkman… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Despite the enormous diversity among parasitic angiosperms in form and structure, life-
history strategies, and plastid genomes, little is known about the diversity of their …

Evolution of mitochondrial gene content: gene loss and transfer to the nucleus

KL Adams, JD Palmer - Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 2003 - Elsevier
Mitochondrial gene content is highly variable across extant eukaryotes. The number of
mitochondrial protein genes varies from 3 to 67, while tRNA gene content varies from 0 to …

Insights into the Evolution of Mitochondrial Genome Size from Complete Sequences of Citrullus lanatus and Cucurbita pepo (Cucurbitaceae)

AJ Alverson, XX Wei, DW Rice, DB Stern… - Molecular biology …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
The mitochondrial genomes of seed plants are unusually large and vary in size by at least
an order of magnitude. Much of this variation occurs within a single family, the …

[图书][B] Phylogeny and Evolution of the Angiosperms

D Soltis, P Soltis, P Endress, M Chase, S Manchester… - 2018 - books.google.com
Although they are relative latecomers on the evolutionary scene, having emerged only 135?
170 million years ago, angiosperms—or flowering plants—are the most diverse and species …