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1987 • 2,169 citations

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1998 • 700 citations

You are what you eat: a gene transfer ratchet could account for bacterial genes in eukaryotic nuclear genomes

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The Endosymbiont Hypothesis Revisited

1992 • 586 citations

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1991 • 386 citations

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1987 • 274 citations

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1996 • 215 citations

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1996 • 199 citations

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1996 • 181 citations

Silent mitochondrial and active nuclear genes for subunit 2 of cytochrome c oxidase (cox2) in soybean: evidence for RNA-mediated gene transfer.

1992 • 169 citations

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1997 • 155 citations

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1994 • 151 citations

The Mitochondrial Genome of the Sea Anemone Metridium senile (Cnidaria): Introns, a Paucity of tRNA Genes, and a Near-Standard Genetic Code

1998 • 150 citations

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1996 • 149 citations

Targeting presequence acquisition after mitochondrial gene transfer to the nucleus occurs by duplication of existing targeting signals.

1996 • 133 citations

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1995 • 132 citations

A single nuclear transcript encoding mitochondrial RPS14 and SDHB of rice is processed by alternative splicing: Common use of the same mitochondrial targeting signal for different proteins

1999 • 109 citations

Pervasive migration of organellar DNA to the nucleus in plants

1995 • 106 citations

Exon shuffling and the origin of the mitochondrial targeting function in plant cytochrome c1 precursor.

1996 • 96 citations

Transfer of rps10 from the mitochondrion to the nucleus in Arabidopsis thaliana: evidence for RNA‐mediated transfer and exon shuffling at the integration site

1995 • 82 citations

Transfer of rps14 from the mitochondrion to the nucleus in maize implied integration within a gene encoding the iron–sulphur subunit of succinate dehydrogenase and expression by alternative splicing

1999 • 69 citations

Transfer of rps19 to the nucleus involves the gain of an RNP-binding motif which may functionally replace RPS13 in Arabidopsis mitochondria.

1996 • 66 citations

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1994 • 42 citations