Origin and Evolution of Mitochondrial DNA

INTRASPECIFIC PHYLOGEOGRAPHY: The Mitochondrial DNA Bridge Between Population Genetics and Systematics

1987 • 3,210 citations

Rates of nucleotide substitution vary greatly among plant mitochondrial, chloroplast, and nuclear DNAs.

1987 • 2,169 citations

Mitochondrial DNA sequences of primates: Tempo and mode of evolution

1982 • 1,578 citations

EVOLUTION OF ANIMAL MITOCHONDRIAL DNA: RELEVANCE FOR POPULATION BIOLOGY AND SYSTEMATICS

1987 • 1,484 citations

Mitochondrial DNA and two perspectives on evolutionary genetics

1985 • 1,260 citations

Plant mitochondrial DNA evolved rapidly in structure, but slowly in sequence

1988 • 685 citations

Mitochondrial origins.

1985 • 606 citations

The Mitochondrial Genome of Animals

1985 • 559 citations

The Absence of a Pyrimidine Dimer Repair Mechanism in Mammalian Mitochondria

1974 • 517 citations

Tempo and mode of sequence evolution in mitochondrial DNA of HawaiianDrosophila

1987 • 478 citations

TRANSCRIPTION OF THE MAMMALIAN MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME

1984 • 442 citations

Has the endosymbiont hypothesis been proven?

1982 • 425 citations

The mitochondrial genome is large and variable in a family of plants (Cucurbitaceae)

1981 • 421 citations

GENETICS OF MITOCHONDRIAL BIOGENESIS

1986 • 420 citations

Mitochondrial and chloroplast genomes of maize have a 12-kilobase DNA sequence in common

1982 • 382 citations

On the evolutionary descent of organisms and organelles: a global phylogeny based on a highly conserved structural core in small subunit ribosomal RNA

1984 • 352 citations

Nucleotide sequence and gene organization of sea urchin mitochondrial DNA

1988 • 334 citations

Nuclear and Mitochondrial DNA Comparisons Reveal Extreme Rate Variation in the Molecular Clock

1986 • 315 citations

The physical map and organisatlon of the mitochondrial genome from the fertile cytoplasm of maize

1984 • 313 citations

Tandem duplications in animal mitochondrial DNAs: variation in incidence and gene content among lizards.

1987 • 300 citations

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

1985 • 294 citations

A Multiple Origin for Plastids and Mitochondria

1970 • 292 citations

Bizarre tRNAs inferred from DNA sequences of mitochondrial genomes of nematode worms.

1987 • 272 citations

Nucleotide sequence evidence for rapid genotypic shifts in the bovine mitochondrial DNA D-loop

1983 • 250 citations

Evolution of plant mitochondrial genomes via substoichiometric intermediates

1989 • 247 citations

Do mitochondrial DNA fragments promote cancer and aging?

1988 • 224 citations

Stoichiometric differences in DNA molecules containing the atpA gene suggest mechanisms for the generation of mitochondrial genome diversity in maize

1987 • 212 citations

LENGTH MUTATIONS IN HUMAN MITOCHONDRIAL DNA

1983 • 205 citations

Scrambled ribosomal RNA gene pieces in chlamydomonas reinhardtii mitochondrial DNA

1988 • 190 citations

Extensive and widespread homologies between mitochondrial DNA and chloroplast DNA in plants

1984 • 187 citations

Duplication and remoulding of tRNA genes during the evolutionary rearrangement of mitochondrial genomes

1987 • 186 citations

Why mitochondria need a genome

1986 • 185 citations

The evolutionary relationships among known life forms

1988 • 180 citations

The tobacco mitochondrial ATPase subunit 9 gene is closely linked to an open reading frame for a ribosomal protein

1986 • 175 citations

The plant mitochondrial genome: homologous recombination as a mechanism for generating heterogeneity

1988 • 174 citations

Structure and evolution of organelle genomes

1982 • 168 citations

Exonucleolytic proofreading enhances the fidelity of DNA synthesis by chick embryo DNA polymerase-gamma.

1988 • 167 citations

Mitochondrial DNA evolution in themelanogaster species subgroup ofDrosophila

1986 • 165 citations

Plastid, nuclear and reverse transcriptase sequences in the mitochondrial genome of Oenothera: is genetic information transferred between organelles via RNA?

1987 • 164 citations

The wheat cytochrome oxidase subunit II gene has an intron insert and three radical amino acid changes relative to maize

1984 • 158 citations

Novel features of animal mtDNA evolution as shown by sequences of two rat cytochrome oxidase subunit II genes.

1982 • 154 citations

Molecular Biology of Higher Plant Mitochondrial DNA

1985 • 143 citations

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

1987 • 130 citations

SEQUENCE EVOLUTION OF DROSOPHILA MITOCHONDRIAL DNA

1985 • 128 citations

Pronounced structural similarities between the small subunit ribosomal RNA genes of wheat mitochondria and Escherichia coli.

1984 • 127 citations

Intraspecific variation and multicircularity in Brassica mitochondrial DNAs.

1988 • 126 citations

Organization and expression of the mitochondrial genome of plants I. The genes for wheat mitochondrial ribosomal and transfer RNA: evidence for an unusual arrangement

1980 • 118 citations

On the evolutionary origin of the plant mitochondrion and its genome

1989 • 116 citations

Length and restriction site heteroplasmy in the mitochondrial DNA of american shad (alosa sapidissima).

1988 • 111 citations

Structural Variation In Mitochondrial Dna

1984 • 109 citations

Tripartite mitochondrial genome of spinach: physical structure, mitochondrial gene mapping, and locations of transposed chloroplast DNA sequences

1986 • 107 citations

The petite mutation in yeast

1979 • 107 citations

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

1981 • 100 citations

Organelle origins and ribosomal RNA

1988 • 98 citations

Genes encoding a subunit of respiratory NADH dehydrogenase (ND1) and a reverse transcriptase-like protein (RTL) are linked to ribosomal RNA gene pieces in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii mitochondrial DNA.

1988 • 94 citations

Five Kingdoms: An Illustrated Guide to the Phyla of Life on Earth

1988 • 91 citations

Excision sequences in the mitochondrial genome of yeast

1983 • 89 citations

Revolutionary concepts in evolutionary cell biology

1980 • 89 citations

Intramolecular recombination as a source of mitochondrial chromosome heteromorphism in neurospora

1984 • 88 citations

The NADH-dehydrogenase subunit 5 gene in Oenothera mitochondria contains two introns and is co-transcribed with the 5 S rRNA gene

1988 • 84 citations

Two dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis analysis of Tetrahymena mitochondrial tRNA

1986 • 83 citations

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

1985 • 80 citations

Atypical mitochondrial DNA from the deep-sea scallop Placopecten magellanicus

1987 • 79 citations

Physical mapping and characterization of Chlamydomonas mitochondrial DNA molecules: Their unique ends, sequence homogeneity, and conservation

1980 • 78 citations

The telomeres of the linear mitochondrial DNA of tetrahymena thermophila consist of 53 bp tandem repeats

1986 • 76 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

Paramecium mitochondrial genes. II. Large subunit rRNA gene sequence and microevolution.

1984 • 70 citations

Wheat mitochondrial DNA encodes a eubacteria‐like initiator methionine transfer RNA

1983 • 70 citations

Mitochondrial genome diversity and the evolution of mitochondrial DNA

1982 • 68 citations

The Bacterial Ancestry of Plastids and Mitochondria

1983 • 64 citations

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

1988 • 60 citations

Mitochondrial genes in trypanosomes

1985 • 56 citations

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

1986 • 54 citations

Conserved tRNA gene cluster in starfish mitochondrial DNA

1989 • 52 citations

Interspecific Recombination of Mitochondrial DNA Molecules in Hybrid Somatic Cells

1974 • 42 citations

SEQUENCE OF THE MITOCHONDRIAL DNA, ARRANGEMENT OF GENES AND PROCESSING OF THEIR TRANSCRIPTS IN SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE

1983 • 42 citations

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

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 genetics, circular DNA and the mechanism of thepetitemutation in yeast

1974 • 39 citations

Conservation of ribosomal RNA gene arrangement in the mitochondrial DNA of angiosperms

1982 • 37 citations

Molecular Mechanisms of Mitochondrial-Genome Evolution in Higher Plants

1987 • 36 citations

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

1986 • 36 citations

The divergent region of theLeishmania tarentolaekinetoplast maxicircle DNA contains a diverse set of repetitive sequences

1985 • 35 citations

Sequence amplification and gene rearrangement in parasitic nematode mitochondrial DNA.

1988 • 34 citations

The case for a polyphyletic origin of mitochondria: Morphological and molecular comparisons

1984 • 32 citations

Multiple sequence rearrangements accompanying the duplication of a tRNAPro gene in wheat mitochondrial DNA

1988 • 29 citations

Different mitochondrial gene orders among insects: exchanged tRNA gene positions in the COII/COIII region between an orthopteran and a dipteran species

1988 • 27 citations

Phylogenetic origins of the plant mitochondrion based on a comparative analysis of 5S ribosomal RNA sequences

1985 • 27 citations

Clustering of tRNA genes in Paracentrotus lividus mitochondrial DNA

1988 • 23 citations

A fine restriction map of the linear mitochondrial DNA of Tetrahyemena pyriformis: genome size, map locations of rRNA and tRNA genes, terminal inversion repeat, and restriction site polymorphism

1985 • 21 citations

A view of early cellular evolution

1987 • 18 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

Mitochondrial DNA in the aquatic fungus Allomyces

1987 • 6 citations