TEN UNORTHODOX PERSPECTIVES ON EVOLUTION PROMPTED BY COMPARATIVE POPULATION GENETIC FINDINGS ON MITOCHONDRIAL DNA

Molecular Evolutionary Genetics

1987 • 15,266 citations

The Selfish Gene

1976 • 10,856 citations

EVOLUTION IN MENDELIAN POPULATIONS

1931 • 8,698 citations

Gene Flow and the Geographic Structure of Natural Populations

1987 • 3,670 citations

Extraordinary Sex Ratios

1967 • 3,591 citations

Rapid evolution of animal mitochondrial DNA.

1979 • 3,420 citations

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

1987 • 3,210 citations

EVOLUTIONARY RELATIONSHIP OF DNA SEQUENCES IN FINITE POPULATIONS

1983 • 3,115 citations

Punctuated equilibria: an alternative to phyletic gradualism

1972 • 2,996 citations

Mitochondrial DNA Mutation Associated with Leber's Hereditary Optic Neuropathy

1988 • 2,368 citations

The origin of the genetic code

1968 • 2,226 citations

Selfish DNA: the ultimate parasite

1980 • 2,095 citations

Deletions of muscle mitochondrial DNA in patients with mitochondrial myopathies

1988 • 1,806 citations

Normal oxidative damage to mitochondrial and nuclear DNA is extensive.

1988 • 1,709 citations

Relationships between gene trees and species trees.

1988 • 1,680 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

ORIGIN OF EUKARYOTIC CELLS

1971 • 1,213 citations

Molecular Population Structure and the Biogeographic History of a Regional Fauna: A Case History with Lessons for Conservation Biology

1992 • 842 citations

A cladistic measure of gene flow inferred from the phylogenies of alleles.

1989 • 767 citations

Principles of genealogical concordance in species concepts and biological taxonomy

1990 • 750 citations

A primer of population genetics

1981 • 740 citations

Organelle gene diversity under migration, mutation, and drift: equilibrium expectations, approach to equilibrium, effects of heteroplasmic cells, and comparison to nuclear genes.

1989 • 691 citations

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

1988 • 685 citations

A theory of evolution above the species level.

1975 • 680 citations

Animal mitochondrial DNA as a genetic marker in population and evolutionary biology

1989 • 634 citations

PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS OF MITOCHONDRIAL DNA UNDER VARIOUS DEMOGRAPHIC MODELS OF SPECIATION11Work was supported by an NIH predoctoral fellowship to JEN, and by NSF Grant BSR-8217291.

1986 • 623 citations

Cytoplasmic inheritance and intragenomic conflict

1981 • 620 citations

Mitochondrial origins.

1985 • 606 citations

Demographic influences on mitochondrial DNA lineage survivorship in animal populations

1984 • 580 citations

Microorganisms associated with chromosome destruction and reproductive isolation between two insect species

1990 • 571 citations

INTRAMITOCHONDRIAL FIBERS WITH DNA CHARACTERISTICS

1963 • 565 citations

Is a New and General Theory of Evolution Emerging?

1987 • 564 citations

The Mitochondrial Genome of Animals

1985 • 559 citations

A different genetic code in human mitochondria

1979 • 558 citations

SELFISH DNA: A SEXUALLY-TRANSMITTED NUCLEAR PARASITE

1982 • 490 citations

Mitochondrial DNA and the evolutionary genetics of higher animals

1986 • 461 citations

GENE TREES AND ORGANISMAL HISTORIES: A PHYLOGENETIC APPROACH TO POPULATION BIOLOGY

1989 • 450 citations

HUMAN MITOCHONDRIAL DNA VARIATION AND EVOLUTION: ANALYSIS OF NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCES FROM SEVEN INDIVIDUALS

1983 • 449 citations

Has the endosymbiont hypothesis been proven?

1982 • 425 citations

Chloroplast DNA polymorphisms in lodgepole and jack pines and their hybrids.

1987 • 412 citations

Calibration of mitochondrial DNA evolution in geese

1987 • 401 citations

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

1982 • 382 citations

Mitochondrial DNA polymorphism in a maternal lineage of Holstein cows.

1982 • 370 citations

Group Selection, Altruism, and the Levels of Organization of Life

1978 • 368 citations

POLYMORPHIC SITES AND THE MECHANISM OF EVOLUTION IN HUMAN MITOCHONDRIAL DNA

1984 • 365 citations

Chloroplast DNA Evolution and Biosystematic Uses of Chloroplast DNA Variation

1987 • 365 citations

Animal Mitochondrial DNA: An Extreme Example of Genetic Economy

1985 • 347 citations

The Evolutionary Dynamics of Cytoplasmic Male Sterility

1989 • 344 citations

The evolutionary origins of organelles

1989 • 342 citations

A genetic discontinuity in a continuously distributed species: mitochondrial DNA in the American oyster, Crassostrea virginica.

1990 • 335 citations

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

1986 • 315 citations

Origin and Evolution of Mitochondrial DNA

1989 • 311 citations

Current versus historical population sizes in vertebrate species with high gene flow: a comparison based on mitochondrial DNA lineages and inbreeding theory for neutral mutations.

1988 • 277 citations

The Texas Cytoplasm of Maize: Cytoplasmic Male Sterility and Disease Susceptibility

1990 • 277 citations

Cytoplasmic male-sterility

1956 • 264 citations

Mapping of mitochondrial DNA of individual sheep and goats: Rapid evolution in the D loop region

1977 • 250 citations

Contrasting modes and tempos of genome evolution in land plant organelles

1990 • 249 citations

Escape of DNA from mitochondria to the nucleus in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

1990 • 249 citations

Incomplete maternal transmission of mitochondrial DNA in Drosophila.

1990 • 246 citations

Mitochondrial DNA differentiation during the speciation process in Peromyscus.

1984 • 233 citations

Directional introgression of mitochondrial DNA in a hybrid population of tree frogs: The influence of mating behavior

1986 • 218 citations

TRANSMISSION GENETICS OF MITOCHONDRIA AND CHLOROPLASTS

1978 • 209 citations

Mitochondrial DNA copy number in bovine oocytes and somatic cells

1982 • 208 citations

Maternal inheritance of mitochondrial DNA during backcrossing of two species of mice

1985 • 198 citations

Genetic structure of Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico populations of sea bass, menhaden, and sturgeon: Influence of zoogeographic factors and life-history patterns

1990 • 194 citations

Maternal and cytoplasmic inheritance of mitochondrial DNA in Xenopus

1972 • 194 citations

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA DIVERSITY IN THE SEA URCHINS STRONGYLOCENTROTUS PURPURATUS AND S. DROEBACHIENSIS

1990 • 191 citations

Statistical methods of DNA sequence analysis: detection of intragenic recombination or gene conversion.

1985 • 187 citations

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

1984 • 187 citations

Heteroplasmy Suggests Limited Biparental Inheritance of Mytilus Mitochondrial DNA

1991 • 187 citations

The evolutionary relationships among known life forms

1988 • 180 citations

MITOCHONDRIAL GENE TREES AND THE EVOLUTIONARY RELATIONSHIP OF MALLARD AND BLACK DUCKS

1990 • 178 citations

MALE-SPECIFIC LETHAL MUTATIONS OF DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER

1980 • 175 citations

Critical experimental test of the possibility of "paternal leakage" of mitochondrial DNA.

1983 • 172 citations

Structure and evolution of organelle genomes

1982 • 168 citations

Mitochondrial DNA sequences in the nuclear genome of a locust

1983 • 160 citations

LENGTH VARIATION AND HETEROPLASMY ARE FREQUENT IN MITOCHONDRIAL DNA FROM PARTHENOGENETIC AND BISEXUAL LIZARDS (GENUS CNEMIDOPHORUS)

1985 • 158 citations

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

1982 • 154 citations

A Case of “Maternal” Inheritance in Neurospora Crassa

1952 • 153 citations

Addition of uridines to edited RNAs in trypanosome mitochondria occurs independently of transcription.

1990 • 152 citations

Evolutionary Consequences of Intracellular Organelle Competition

1980 • 151 citations

SEX RATIO ORGANISMS (SPIROPLASMAS) OF Drosophila

1979 • 149 citations

Paternal inheritance of chloroplast DNA in Larix

1987 • 145 citations

Mitochondrial gene flow.

1984 • 141 citations

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA TRANSMISSION GENETICS IN CRICKETS

1986 • 138 citations

Rates of nucleotide substitution in Drosophila mitochondrial DNA and nuclear DNA are similar.

1986 • 137 citations

Genetics of Male and Female Sterility in Hybrids of Drosophila pseudoobscura and D. persimilis

1987 • 135 citations

Genetics of mitochondria in Drosophila: mtDNA inheritance in heteroplasmic strains of D. mauritiana

1984 • 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

SON-KILLER: A THIRD EXTRACHROMOSOMAL FACTOR AFFECTING THE SEX RATIO IN THE PARASITOID WASP, NASONIA (=MORMONIELLA) VITRIPENNIS

1985 • 127 citations

Interspecific mitochondrial DNA transfer and the colonization of Scandinavia by mice

1987 • 124 citations

On the evolutionary origin of the plant mitochondrion and its genome

1989 • 116 citations

Evidence for non-neutrality of mitochondrial DNA haplotypes in Drosophila pseudoobscura.

1988 • 115 citations

Independent transfer of mitochondrial chromosomes and plasmids during unstable vegetative fusion in Neurospora

1990 • 113 citations

Natural selection with nuclear and cytoplasmic transmission. III. Joint analysis of segregation and mtDNA in Drosophila melanogaster.

1988 • 112 citations

Unequal partitioning of bovine mitochondrial genotypes among siblings.

1988 • 108 citations

Size polymorphism and heteropiasmy in the mitochondrial DNA of lower vertebrates

1986 • 99 citations

Variations of chloroplast DNAs in the genus Pelargonium and their biparental inheritance

1981 • 99 citations

VARIABILITY OF EVOLUTIONARY RATES OF DNA

1986 • 91 citations

Paternal inheritance of a daughterless sex ratio factor

1981 • 88 citations

ESTIMATION OF SINGLE GENERATION MIGRATION DISTANCES FROM GEOGRAPHIC VARIATION IN ANIMAL MITOCHONDRIAL DNA

1991 • 81 citations

Is there selection on RFLP differences in mitochondrial DNA?

1990 • 80 citations

How selfish is DNA?

1980 • 79 citations

Extensive variation and heteroplasmy in size of mitochondrial DNA among geographic populations of Drosophila melanogaster

1986 • 78 citations

Mitochondrial DNA evolution in experimental populations of Drosophila subobscura.

1990 • 77 citations

Mitochondrial DNA evolution in primates: Transition rate has been extremely low in the lemur

1990 • 77 citations

SELECTION WITH GENE-CYTOPLASM INTERACTIONS. I. MAINTENANCE OF CYTOPLASM POLYMORPHISMS

1984 • 76 citations

Models of mitochondrial DNA transmission genetics and evolution in higher eucaryotes

1982 • 74 citations

Organelle Alteration as a Mechanism for Maternal Inheritance

1980 • 71 citations

Organization, Structure, and Evolution of Mammalian Mitochondrial Genes

1987 • 70 citations

Drosophila Mitochondrial Genetics: Evolution of Heteroplasmy Through Germ Line Cell Divisions

1987 • 69 citations

MALELESS, A RECESSIVE AUTOSOMAL MUTANT OF DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER THAT SPECIFICALLY KILLS MALE ZYGOTES

1975 • 69 citations

Concerted evolution of sequence repeats inDrosophila mitochondrial DNA

1986 • 68 citations

Mitochondrial DNA insertion polymorphism and germ line heteroplasmy in the Triturus cristatus complex

1987 • 68 citations

Fertilization in tunicates: Loss of the paternal mitochondrion prior to sperm entry

1965 • 65 citations

Complete replacement of mitochondrial DNA in Drosophila

1989 • 65 citations

GENE GENEALOGIES WITHIN THE ORGANISMAL PEDIGREES OF RANDOM‐MATING POPULATIONS

1990 • 62 citations

Mode of Inheritance and Variation of Mitochondrial DNA in Hybridogenetic Fishes of the Genus Poeciliopsis

1987 • 58 citations

Mitochondrial genes and disease.

1986 • 57 citations

Primary structure of mouse, rat, and guinea pig cytochrome c

1977 • 56 citations

Mitochondrial DNA modifications associated with cytoplasmic male sterility in rice

1987 • 52 citations

Relationship between DNA polymorphism and fixation time.

1990 • 48 citations

The genetics of sex ratio distortion by cytoplasmic infection under maternal and contagious transmission: An epidemiological study

1978 • 48 citations

RNA editing fixes problems in plant mitochondrial transcripts

1991 • 46 citations

NATURAL SELECTION WITH NUCLEAR AND CYTOPLASMIC TRANSMISSION. II. TESTS WITH DROSOPHILA FROM DIVERSE POPULATIONS

1985 • 44 citations

Evolution of the amino acid code: Inferences from mitochondrial codes

1983 • 42 citations

Streptococcal L-forms isolated from Drosophila paulistorum semispecies cause sterility in male progeny.

1984 • 35 citations

Evolutionary dynamics of extranuclear genes

1983 • 33 citations

DETERMINISTIC THEORY OF HETEROPLASMY

1988 • 31 citations

Presence of the Sperm Middle-Piece in the Fertilized Egg of the Mouse (Mus musculus)

1940 • 29 citations

Induction of mitochondrial DNA heteroplasmy by intra- and interspecific transplantation of germ plasm in Drosophila.

1989 • 28 citations

Cytochrome oxidase deficiency during development of amphibian nucleocytoplasmic hybrids

1977 • 27 citations

Structural similarities between a mitochondrially encoded polypeptide and a family of prokaryotic respiratory toxins involved in plasmid maintenance suggest a novel mechanism for the evolutionary maintenance of mitochondrial DNA

1991 • 24 citations

Migratory DNA: Mitochondrial genes in the nucleus

1983 • 23 citations

Molecular genetic: Diverged genetic codes in protozoans and a bacterium

1985 • 22 citations

TWO DATA SETS: ALTERNATIVE EXPLANATIONS AND INTERPRETATIONS

1981 • 21 citations

Male sterility in Heliothis virescens x H. subflexa backcross hybrids

1986 • 18 citations

Genetic code: Mitochondrial codes and evolution

1983 • 17 citations

Monospermic fertilization in Chrysopa carnea (neuroptera; chrysopidae) : Behaviour of the fertilizing spermatozoa prior to syngamy

1980 • 6 citations