Evolution of Mitochondrial Genomes in Fungi

Rapid evolution of animal mitochondrial DNA.

1979 • 3,420 citations

Slipped-strand mispairing: a major mechanism for DNA sequence evolution.

1987 • 2,272 citations

Directional mutation pressure and neutral molecular evolution.

1988 • 872 citations

Conservation of RNA secondary structures in two intron families including mitochondrial-, chloroplast- and nuclear-encoded members.

1983 • 510 citations

Group I introns as mobile genetic elements: Facts and mechanistic speculations — a review

1989 • 473 citations

Gene Structure in Eukaryotic Microbes

1987 • 462 citations

Evolutionary biology of the fungi

1986 • 451 citations

Assembly of the mitochondrial membrane system. Structure and nucleotide sequence of the gene coding for subunit 1 of yeast cytochrme oxidase.

1980 • 431 citations

Phylogenetic relationships between chlorophytes, chrysophytes, and oomycetes.

1987 • 381 citations

Sequence of the intron and flanking exons of the mitochondrial 21S rRNA gene of yeast strains having different alleles at the ω and rib-1 loci

1980 • 373 citations

The Evolution of genome size

1985 • 354 citations

The evolutionary origins of organelles

1989 • 342 citations

Origin and Evolution of Mitochondrial DNA

1989 • 311 citations

Genomic organization and physical mapping of the transfer RNA genes in Escherichia coli K12

1990 • 311 citations

Mitochondrial class II introns encode proteins related to the reverse transcriptases of retroviruses

1985 • 294 citations

Codon reassignment (codon capture) in evolution

1989 • 287 citations

From extracellular to intracellular: the establishment of mitochondria and chloroplasts

1979 • 272 citations

Recognition and cleavage site of the intron-encoded omega transposase.

1988 • 262 citations

Sequence analysis of cDNAs for the human and bovine ATP synthase ? subunit: mitochondrial DNA genes sustain seventeen times more mutations

1987 • 237 citations

Evolutionary Biology of the Fungi

1989 • 230 citations

The atp operon: nucleotide sequence of the promoter and the genes for the membrane proteins, and the δ subunit of Escherichia coli ATP-synthase

1981 • 229 citations

Mitochondrial DNA. V. A 25 micron closed circular duplex DNA molecule in wild-type yeast mitochondria. Stucture and genetic complexity.

1970 • 217 citations

Nucleo‐mitochondrial interactions in yeast mitochondrial biogenesis

1989 • 216 citations

The complete DNA sequence of the mitochondrial genome of Podospora anserina

1990 • 215 citations

A latent intron-encoded maturase is also an endonuclease needed for intron mobility

1989 • 205 citations

Similarity of reverse transcriptase-like sequences of viruses, transposable elements, and mitochondrial introns.

1988 • 194 citations

Accelerated evolution of a false-truffle from a mushroom ancestor

1989 • 193 citations

Intron within the large rRNA gene of N. crassa mitochondria: A long open reading frame and a consensus sequence possibly important in splicing

1982 • 190 citations

Similar genes for a mitochondrial ATPase subunit in the nuclear and mitochondrial genomes of Neurospora crassa

1982 • 186 citations

Isolation and analysis of the genes for cytochrome c oxidase in Paracoccus denitrificans

1987 • 184 citations

Sequence Analysis of the Small Subunit Ribosomal Rnas of Three Zoosporic Fungi and Implications for Fungal Evolution

1990 • 183 citations

Evidence for plasmid like DNA in a filamentous fungus, the ascomycete Podospora anserina

1978 • 181 citations

Mitochondrial DNA

1970 • 176 citations

Linear plasmids among eukaryotes: fundamentals and application

1990 • 172 citations

Transposition of an intron in yeast mitochondria requires a protein encoded by that intron

1985 • 159 citations

NATURAL VARIATION IN THE GENETIC CODE

1987 • 155 citations

Molecular clock of silent substitution: At least six-fold preponderance of silent changes in mitochondrial genes over those in nuclear genes

1982 • 154 citations

Infectious introns

1989 • 153 citations

Mitochondrial DNA from Podospora anserina

1979 • 150 citations

Assignment of the rumen anaerobe Neocallimastix frontalis to the Spizellomycetales (Chytridiomycetes) on the basis of its polyflagellate zoospore ultrastructure

1983 • 150 citations

The organization of gene in yeast mitochondrial DNA

1977 • 138 citations

The primary structure of the mitochondrial genome of Saccharomyces cerevisiae — a review

1986 • 138 citations

Mobile Introns and Intron-Encoded Proteins

1989 • 134 citations

Construction of a yeast strain devoid of mitochondrial introns and its use to screen nuclear genes involved in mitochondrial splicing.

1987 • 130 citations

Mitochondrial DNA from Podospora anserina

1979 • 128 citations

The Expanding Realm of Yeast-like Fungi

1989 • 126 citations

Fungal evolutionary biology and mitochondrial DNA

1986 • 124 citations

Relatedness of Strains ofFusarium oxysporumfrom Crucifers Measured by Examination of Mitochondrial and Ribosomal DNA

1987 • 123 citations

Classification of Histoplasma capsulatum isolates by restriction fragment polymorphisms

1986 • 121 citations

Mobile introns: definition of terms and recommended nomenclature

1989 • 117 citations

The mitochondrial genome of the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe: highly homologous introns are inserted at the same position of the otherwise less conserved cox1 genes in Schizosaccharomyces pombe and Aspergillus nidulans.

1984 • 111 citations

Structural Variation In Mitochondrial Dna

1984 • 109 citations

Sequence Analysis of the Small Subunit Ribosomal RNAs of Three Zoosporic Fungi and Implications for Fungal Evolution

1990 • 101 citations

Highly conserved GC-rich palindromic DNA sequences flank tRNA genes in Neurospora crassa mitochondria

1981 • 100 citations

Three genes coding for subunits of the membrane sector (F0) of the Escherichia coli adenosine triphosphatase complex

1981 • 100 citations

Deletion mutants of Neurospora crassa mitochondrial DNA and their relationship to the "stop-start" growth phenotype.

1980 • 99 citations

The GC clusters of the mitochondrial genome of yeast and their evolutionary origin

1986 • 96 citations

Cloning and analysis of the Kluyveromyces lactis TRP1 gene: A chromosomal locus flanked by genes encoding inorganic pyrophosphatase and histone H3

1989 • 94 citations

Reverse self-splicing of group II intron RNAs in vitro

1990 • 94 citations

Excision sequences in the mitochondrial genome of yeast

1983 • 89 citations

Subunit 1 of cytochrome oxidase from Neurospora crassa: nucleotide sequence of the coding gene and partial amino acid sequence of the protein.

1982 • 88 citations

Intramolecular recombination as a source of mitochondrial chromosome heteromorphism in neurospora

1984 • 88 citations

Integration of group II intron bl1 into a foreign RNA by reversal of the self-splicing reaction in vitro

1990 • 88 citations

Amplification of a Mitochondrial DNA Sequence in the Cytoplasmically Inherited ‘Ragged’ Mutant of Aspergillus amstelodami

1980 • 86 citations

Structural variations and optional introns in the mitochondrial DNAs of Neurospora strains isolated from nature

1983 • 84 citations

Preferential recombination between GC clusters in yeast mitochondrial DNA.

1987 • 83 citations

The mitochondrial DNAs of Agaricus: heterogeneity in A. bitorquis and homogeneity in A. brunnescens

1985 • 80 citations

Mitochondrial tRNA gene clusters in Aspergillus nidulans: Organization and nucleotide sequence

1981 • 79 citations

Mitochondrial DNA of the filamentous ascomycete Cochliobolus heterostrophus

1984 • 78 citations

The E35 stopper mutant of Neurospora crassa: precise localization of deletion endpoints in mitochondrial DNA and evidence that the deleted DNA codes for a subunit of NADH dehydrogenase.

1986 • 76 citations

The intron of the mitochondrial 21S rRNA gene: Distribution in different yeast species and sequence comparison between Kluyveromyces thermotolerans and Saccharomyces cerevisiae

1983 • 75 citations

Organization of Achlya mtDNA: a population with two orientations and a large inverted repeat containing the rRNA genes.

1983 • 74 citations

A yeast with linear molecules of mitochondrial DNA

1984 • 72 citations

Location of transcriptional control signals and transfer RNA sequences in Torulopsis glabrata mitochondrial DNA.

1985 • 72 citations

The Aspergillus nidulans mitochondrial genome

1985 • 71 citations

Restriction enzyme analysis of mitochondrial DNA of the Aspergillus flavus group: A. flavus, A. parasiticus, and A. nomius

1990 • 70 citations

Extrachromosomal genetics of Claviceps purpurea

1983 • 67 citations

The alcohol dehydrogenase system in the yeast, Kluyveromyces lactis

1990 • 65 citations

A mutation in yeast mitochondrial DNA results in a precise excision of the terminal intron of the cytochrome b gene.

1985 • 64 citations

Estimation of Relatedness BetweenPhytophthoraSpecies by Analysis of Mitochondrial DNA

1988 • 63 citations

Nucleolytic processing of ribonucleic acid transcripts in procaryotes.

1986 • 61 citations

The Variable Mitochondrial Genome of Ascomycetes: Organization, Mutational Alterations, and Expression

1988 • 60 citations

Circular DNA from mitochondria of Neurospora crassa

1972 • 56 citations

Three variant introns of the same general class in the mitochondrial gene for cytochrome oxidase subunit 1 in Aspergillus nidulans.

1984 • 56 citations

Contrasting mutation rates in mitochondrial and nuclear genes of yeasts versus mammals

1991 • 55 citations

DNA sequence analysis of the 24.5 Kilobase pair cytochrome oxidase subunit I mitochondrial gene from Podospora anserina: a gene with sixteen introns

1989 • 55 citations

Characterization of variant neurospora crassa mitochondrial DNAs which contain tandem reiterations

1979 • 55 citations

An approach to yeast classification by mapping mitochondrial DNA from Dekkera/Brettanomyces and Eeniella genera

1986 • 54 citations

Anatomy of amplified mitochondrial DNA in ?Ragged? mutants of Aspergillus amstelodami: Excision points within protein genes and a common 215 bp segment containing a possible origin of replication

1981 • 53 citations

EVOLUTION AND MITOCHONDRIAL DNA IN NEUROSPORA CRASSA

1986 • 53 citations

Isolation and characterization of mitochondrial DNA of the oomycetous fungus Phytophthora infestans

1984 • 52 citations

Mitochondrial DNAs of Suillus: three fold size change in molecules that share a common gene order

1988 • 52 citations

Evolution of mushroom mitochondrial DNA:Suillus and related genera

1989 • 51 citations

High frequency transfer of species specific mitochondrial DNA sequences between members of the aspergillaceae

1981 • 51 citations

Mitochondrial introns aI1 and/or aI2 are needed for the in vivo deletion of intervening sequences

1989 • 51 citations

Circular mitochondrial genome of Candida albicans contains a large inverted duplication

1985 • 50 citations

Cytochrome oxidase subunit 2 gene in Neurospora crassa mitochondria.

1983 • 49 citations

Respiratory-deficient mutants of Torulopsis glabrata, a yeast with circular mitochondrial deoxyribonucleic acid of 6 mu m

1976 • 48 citations

Characterization of a yeast mitochondrial locus necessary for tRNA biosynthesis

1983 • 48 citations

Nature of an inserted sequence in the mitochondrial gene coding for the 15S ribosomal RNA of yeast

1982 • 48 citations

Putative target sites for mobile G+C rich clusters in yeast mitochondrial DNA: Single elements and tandem arrays

1989 • 47 citations

Despite mtDNA polymorphism the mobile intron (plDNA) of the COI gene is present in ten different races of Podospora anserina

1985 • 45 citations

Extrachromosomal genetics of Claviceps purpurea

1986 • 45 citations

Does mitochondrial DNA length influence the frequency of spontaneous petite mutants in yeasts?

1981 • 44 citations

The mitochondrial genome of the fission yeast, Schizosaccharomyces pombe

1987 • 44 citations

Physical mapping of the mitochondrial genome of the cultivated mushroom Agaricus brunnescens (= A. bisporus)

1988 • 42 citations

The mitochondrial genome of fission yeast: inability of all introns to splice autocatalytically, and construction and characterization of an intronless genome

1991 • 42 citations

Nucleotide sequence of the COX1 gene in Kluyveromyces lactis mitochondrial DNA: evidence for recent horizontal transfer of a group II intron

1991 • 41 citations

Molecular analysis of the mitochondrial genome of Phytophthoraa

1987 • 41 citations

In vivo rearrangement of mitochondrial DNA in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

1989 • 41 citations

Closed-Circular DNA from Mitochondrial-Enriched Fractions of Four Petite-Negative Yeasts

1975 • 41 citations

In vivo double-strand breaks occur at recombinogenic G + C-rich sequences in the yeast mitochondrial genome.

1988 • 40 citations

Sequence of theKluyveromyces lactisURA3 gene

1987 • 40 citations

Excision-amplification of mitochondrial DNA during senescence in Podospora anserina

1987 • 40 citations

Extrachromosomal genetics of Cephalosporium acremonium

1982 • 40 citations

Two distinct mechanisms for deletion in mitochondrial DNA of Schizosaccharomyces pombe mutator strains

1988 • 40 citations

Distribution of mitochondrial introns in the species Schizosaccharomyces pombe and the origin of the group II intron in the gene encoding apocytochrome b

1987 • 39 citations

Mitochondrial DNA in Fusarium oxysporum is a 46.5 Kilobase Pair Circular Molecule

1984 • 39 citations

Incipient mitochondrial evolution in yeasts

1991 • 39 citations

Mitochondrial DNA rearrangements inPodospora anserina

1989 • 38 citations

Isolation and characterization of mitochondrial DNA from the basidiomyceteSchizophyllum commune

1983 • 38 citations

Estimation of Relatedness between Phytophthora Species by Analysis of Mitochondrial DNA

1988 • 38 citations

Dekkera, Brettanomyces andEeniella: Electrophoretic comparison of enzymes and DNA-DNA homology

1990 • 37 citations

Molecular characterization of the mitochondrial DNA of a new stopper mutant ER-3 of Neurospora crassa.

1988 • 36 citations

Analysis of the mitochondrial and nuclear genomes of two basidiomycetes, Coprinus cinereus and Coprinus stercorarius

1986 • 36 citations

Partial duplication of the large ribosomal RNA sequence in an inverted repeat in circular mitochondrial DNA from Kloeckera africana

1981 • 36 citations

A gene required for RNase P activity in Candida (Torulopsis) glabrata mitochondria codes for a 227-nucleotide RNA with homology to bacterial RNase P RNA.

1991 • 35 citations

Discrimination between different groups of Candida parapsilosis by mitochondrial DNA restriction analysis

1988 • 33 citations

Detection of circular DNA from mitochondria of Neurosporacrassa

1972 • 32 citations

Achlya mitochondrial DNA: gene localization and analysis of inverted repeats

1986 • 32 citations

Expandable var1 gene of yeast mitochondrial DNA: in-frame insertions can explain the strain-specific protein size polymorphisms.

1984 • 32 citations

An inverted repeat comprises more than three-quarters of the mitochondrial genome in two species of Pythiumm

1987 • 32 citations

Properties of mitochondrial DNA from Kluyveromyces lactis

1974 • 31 citations

Transcription of Mitochondrial DNA

1983 • 31 citations

A family of repetitive palindromic sequences found in Neurospora mitochondrial DNA is also found in a mitochondrial plasmid DNA.

1983 • 31 citations

Uniformity of mitochondrial DNA complexity in Oomycetes and the evolution of the inverted repeat

1988 • 31 citations

Mapping of mitochondrial DNA from Torulopsis glabrata

1980 • 30 citations

A mobile group II intron of a naturally occurring rearranged mitochondrial genome in Kluyveromyces lactis

1991 • 29 citations

Evolution of the mitochondrial genetic code II. Reassignment of codon AUA from isoleucine to methionine

1989 • 29 citations

Gene organization of the mitochondrial DNA of yeasts: Kluyveromyces lactis and Saccharomycopsis lipolytica

1981 • 29 citations

Biased inheritance of optional insertions following mitochondrial genome recombination in the basidiomycete fungus Coprinus cinereuss

1987 • 29 citations

Evolutionary stability of mitochondrial DNA organization in Achlya

1984 • 28 citations

DNA splicing of mitochondrial group I and II introns in Schizosaccharomyces pombe

1987 • 28 citations

var1 gene on the mitochondrial genome of Torulopsis glabrata

1985 • 28 citations

A GC cluster repeat is a hotspot for mit− macro-deletions in yeast mitochondrial DNA

1991 • 27 citations

Recombination and replication of plasmid-like derivatives of a short section of the mitochondrial chromosome of Neurospora crassa.

1989 • 27 citations

Deletions and rearrangements in Kluyveromyces lactis mitochondrial DNA

1989 • 27 citations

The AT spacers and the var1 genes from the mitochondrial genomes of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Torulopsis glabrata: evolutionary origin and mechanism of formation

1987 • 27 citations

The primary structure of the 3-phosphoglycerate kinase (PGK) gene from Kluyveromyces lactis

1990 • 26 citations

Evolution of the mitochondrial genetic code III. Reassignment of CUN codons from leucine to threonine during evolution of yeast mitochondria

1990 • 26 citations

Biogenesis of mitochondria: Mapping of transcripts from the oli2 region of mitochondrial DNA in two grande strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae

1982 • 26 citations

Order and orientation of genic sequences in circular mitochondrial DNA fromSaccharomyces exiguus: Implications for evolution of yeast mtDNAs

1983 • 24 citations

Nucleotide sequence of the cytochrome oxidase subunit 2 and val‐tRNA genes and surrounding sequences from Kluyveromyces lactis K8 mitochondrial DNA

1990 • 24 citations

Mitochondrial DNA of the yeastKluyveromyces: guanine—cytosine rich sequence clusters

1988 • 24 citations

Analysis of the regions coding for transfer RNAs inKluyveromyces lactismitochondrial DNA

1989 • 24 citations

Evolutionary relationships between fungi, red algae, and other simple eucaryotes inferred from total DNA hybridizations to a cloned basidiomycete ribosomal DNA

1986 • 24 citations

The mitochondrial genome of the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe

1984 • 23 citations

Fungal mitochondrial plasmids

1985 • 23 citations

The structure of the gene for subunit I of cytochrome c oxidase in Neurospora crassa mitochondria

1983 • 22 citations

DNA sequence analysis of the mitochondrial ND4L-ND5 gene complex from Podospora anserina

1990 • 22 citations

Mitochondrial DNA from Aspergillus nidulans

1975 • 21 citations

ABNORMAL MITOCHONDRIAL GENOMES IN YEAST RESTORED TO RESPIRATORY COMPETENCE

1978 • 21 citations

ELEVATED LEVELS OF PETITE FORMATION IN STRAINS OF SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE RESTORED TO RESPIRATORY COMPETENCE. I. ASSOCIATION OF BOTH HIGH AND MODERATE FREQUENCIES OF PETITE MUTANT FORMATION WITH THE PRESENCE OF ABERRANT MITOCHONDRIAL DNA

1985 • 21 citations

Evolution and Mitochondrial DNA in Neurospora crassa

1986 • 19 citations

The Mitochondrial Genomes of Ustilago cynodontis and Acanthamoeba castellanii

1981 • 19 citations

A group II intron in theNeurosporamitochondrialcolgene: nucleotide sequence and implications for splicing and molecular evolution

1989 • 17 citations

The mitochondrial genome of the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe

1985 • 17 citations

ELEVATED LEVELS OF PETITE FORMATION IN STRAINS OF SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE RESTORED TO RESPIRATORY COMPETENCE. II. ORGANIZATION OF MITOCHONDRIAL GENOMES IN STRAINS HAVING HIGH AND MODERATE FREQUENCIES OF PETITE MUTANT FORMATION

1985 • 17 citations

Comparison of the fine structure of mitochondrial DNA from Saccharomyces cerevisiae and S. carisbergensis: electron microscopy of partially denatured molecules.

1976 • 17 citations

Cloning and sequencing of the gene for apocytochrome b of the yeast Kluyveromyces lactis strains WM27 (NRRL Y‐17066) and WM37 (NRRL Y‐1140)

1989 • 16 citations

Conversion at large intergenic regions of mitochondrial DNA in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

1990 • 15 citations

Isolation and characterization of mitochondrial DNA from the alkane yeast Saccharomycopsis lipolytica

1980 • 15 citations

Sequence of the gene for the cytoplasmic ribosomal RNA small subunit fromCandida (Torulopsis) glabrata

1990 • 15 citations

Duplication of the tRNA M Met and tRNACys genes and of fragments of a gene encoding a subunit of the NADH dehydrogenase complex in Neurospora grassa mitochondrial DNA

1989 • 14 citations

Genic rearrangements in Phytophthora mitochondrial DNA

1990 • 13 citations

DNA duplication has resulted in transfer of an amino-terminal peptide between two mitochondrial proteins

1983 • 13 citations

Characterization and Comparison of Mitochondrial DNAs and rRNAs from Penicillium Urticae and P. Chrysogenum

1990 • 13 citations

Naturally occurring respiratory deficient Candida slooffii strains resemble petite mutants

1978 • 12 citations

Circular DNA from the water mold Saprolegnia

1973 • 12 citations

Electron microscopic studies on liver 5-aminolaevulinate synthase

1984 • 11 citations

Trailing the itinerant intron

1990 • 11 citations

Mitochondrial gene URFN of Neurospora crassa codes for a long polypeptide with highly repetitive structure

1986 • 11 citations

Site-specific AT-cluster insertions in the mitochondrial 15S rRNA gene of the yeastS.cerevisiae

1988 • 10 citations

Polymorphism of the mitochondrial L-RNA gene of the basidiomycete Coprinus cinereus

1989 • 10 citations

Nucleotide base sequence of the mitochondrial COIII gene of Schizophyllum commune

1988 • 9 citations

Restriction endonuclease map of mitochondrial DNA from Penicillium chrysogenum

1984 • 8 citations

The mitochondrial DNA of the yeast Hansenula petersonii: genome organization and mosaic genes

1984 • 8 citations

Polymorphisms in tandemly repeated sequences ofSaccharomyces cerevisiae mitodhondrial DNA

1991 • 8 citations

The subunit I of the respiratory-chain NADH dehydrogenase from Cephalosporium acremonium: the evolution of a mitochondrial gene

1986 • 7 citations

Physical mapping and genome organization of mitochondrial DNA from Candida maltosa

1986 • 7 citations

Identification and isolation of the cytochrome oxidase subunit II gene in mitochondria of the yeast Hansenula saturnus

1985 • 6 citations

Presence and absence of large inverted repeats in the mitochondrial DNA of Hyphochytriomycetes

1988 • 5 citations

Estimation of the molecular length of petite negative yeast mitochondrial DNA

1976 • 3 citations

Nucleotide sequence of the only unidentifed reading frame in theAspergillus nidulansmitochondrial genome

1989 • 3 citations