Mitochondrial Evolution

Towards a natural system of organisms: proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya.

1990 • 5,831 citations

Quartet Puzzling: A Quartet Maximum-Likelihood Method for Reconstructing Tree Topologies

1996 • 2,613 citations

The Minimal Gene Complement of Mycoplasma genitalium

1995 • 2,499 citations

Genomic sequence of a Lyme disease spirochaete, Borrelia burgdorferi

1997 • 2,082 citations

The hydrogen hypothesis for the first eukaryote

1998 • 1,240 citations

Common Principles of Protein Translocation Across Membranes

1996 • 1,081 citations

Complete Genome Sequence of Treponema pallidum , the Syphilis Spirochete

1998 • 1,060 citations

The mitochondrial genome of Arabidopsis thaliana contains 57 genes in 366,924 nucleotides

1997 • 930 citations

Kingdom protozoa and its 18 phyla

1993 • 860 citations

Ribosomal RNA: a key to phylogeny.

1993 • 728 citations

Phylogenetic Meaning of the Kingdom Concept: an Unusual Ribosomal RNA from Giardia lamblia

1989 • 715 citations

An ancestral mitochondrial DNA resembling a eubacterial genome in miniature

1997 • 633 citations

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

1998 • 607 citations

Mitochondrial origins.

1985 • 606 citations

The Endosymbiont Hypothesis Revisited

1992 • 586 citations

Gene organization deduced from the complete sequence of liverwort Marchantia polymorpha mitochondrial DNA

1992 • 584 citations

Genomic evidence for two functionally distinct gene classes

1998 • 542 citations

Microsporidia are related to Fungi: Evidence from the largest subunit of RNA polymerase II and other proteins

1999 • 518 citations

Early evolution and the origin of eukaryotes

1991 • 506 citations

A Novel and Ubiquitous System for Membrane Targeting and Secretion of Cofactor-Containing Proteins

1998 • 465 citations

Gene order comparisons for phylogenetic inference: evolution of the mitochondrial genome.

1992 • 426 citations

Has the endosymbiont hypothesis been proven?

1982 • 425 citations

GENETICS OF MITOCHONDRIAL BIOGENESIS

1986 • 420 citations

Determining divergence times with a protein clock: Update and reevaluation

1997 • 414 citations

RNA-mediated transfer of the gene coxII from the mitochondrion to the nucleus during flowering plant evolution

1991 • 386 citations

An Essential Component of a Novel Bacterial Protein Export System with Homologues in Plastids and Mitochondria

1998 • 371 citations

Genome structure and gene content in protist mitochondrial DNAs

1998 • 359 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

How good are deep phylogenetic trees?

1998 • 324 citations

Alpha-tubulin from early-diverging eukaryotic lineages and the evolution of the tubulin family

1996 • 317 citations

Symbiosis Between Methanogenic Archaea and δ-Proteobacteria as the Origin of Eukaryotes: The Syntrophic Hypothesis

1998 • 313 citations

A common evolutionary origin for mitochondria and hydrogenosomes.

1996 • 308 citations

Ribosomal RNA phylogeny and the primary lines of evolutionary descent

1986 • 300 citations

A mitochondrial-like chaperonin 60 gene in Giardia lamblia: Evidence that diplomonads once harbored an endosymbiont related to the progenitor of mitochondria

1998 • 288 citations

The fungal mitochondrial genome project: evolution of fungal mitochondrial genomes and their gene expression

1997 • 286 citations

Early branching eukaryotes?

1998 • 273 citations

Origin and ,evolution of organelle genomes

1993 • 248 citations

Evidence for loss of mitochondria in Microsporidia from a mitochondrial-type HSP70 in Nosema locustae1Note: Nucleotide sequence data reported in this paper has been submitted to the GenBank™ data base under the accession number U97520.1

1997 • 244 citations

Small subunit ribosomal RNA+ of Hexamita inflata and the quest for the first branch in the eukaryotic tree

1993 • 227 citations

Phylogenetic Analysis of β-Tubulin Sequences from Amitochondrial Protozoa

1996 • 217 citations

Reaching for the ring: the study of mitochondrial genome structure

1993 • 204 citations

The origin of the eukaryotic cell

1996 • 204 citations

A mitochondrial Hsp70 orthologue in Vairimorpha necatrix : molecular evidence that microsporidia once contained mitochondria

1997 • 202 citations

Scrambled ribosomal RNA gene pieces in chlamydomonas reinhardtii mitochondrial DNA

1988 • 190 citations

Trans-splicing of pre-mRNA in plants, animals, and protists.

1993 • 176 citations

A nuclear gene of eubacterial origin in Euglena gracilis reflects cryptic endosymbioses during protist evolution.

1995 • 172 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

Editing of Transfer RNAs in Acanthamoeba castellanii Mitochondria

1993 • 163 citations

Protein-based phylogenies support a chimeric origin for the eukaryotic genome.

1995 • 157 citations

The Mitochondrial DNA of the Amoeboid Protozoon,Acanthamoeba castellanii: Complete Sequence, Gene Content and Genome Organization

1995 • 156 citations

On the Evolution of the Single-Subunit RNA Polymerases

1997 • 156 citations

Evolutionary relationships of eukaryotic kingdoms

1996 • 150 citations

Origins of microsporidia

1998 • 128 citations

Linear mitochondrial genomes: 30 years down the line

1998 • 126 citations

THE EXTRACHROMOSOMAL DNAS OF APICOMPLEXAN PARASITES

1994 • 121 citations

On the evolutionary origin of the plant mitochondrion and its genome

1989 • 116 citations

Evidence that eukaryotic triosephosphate isomerase is of alpha-proteobacterial origin

1997 • 112 citations

Transcription in chloroplasts and mitochondria: A tale of two polymerases

1998 • 110 citations

Trans-splicing group II introns in plant mitochondria: The complete set of cis-arranged homologs in ferns, fern allies, and a hornwort

1998 • 108 citations

The mitochondrial gene encoding ribosomal protein S12 has been translocated to the nuclear genome inOenothera

1992 • 98 citations

Nuclear-Encoded Transfer RNAs in Plant Mitochondria

1992 • 96 citations

History assignment: when was the mitochondrion founded?

1997 • 86 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

A 6-Klngdom Classification And A Unified Phylogeny

1983 • 81 citations

Identification of additional rRNA fragments encoded by the Plasmodium falciparum 6 kb element

1997 • 81 citations

Amitochondriate amoebae and the evolution of DNA-dependent RNA polymerase II

1998 • 68 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

The structure of mitochondrial DNA from the liverwort, Marchantia polymorpha

1998 • 62 citations

New insights into the phylogeny of eukaryotes based on ciliate Hsp70 sequences

1998 • 59 citations

A novel nucleotide incorporation activity implicated in the editing of mitochondrial transfer RNAs in Acanthamoeba castellanii

1999 • 59 citations

A glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase with eubacterial features in the amitochondriate eukaryote, Trichomonas vaginalis

1993 • 58 citations

Import of RNA into mitochondria

1994 • 54 citations

An Overview of the Status of Evolutionary Cell Symbiosis Theories

1987 • 54 citations

The Organelle Genome Database Project (GOBASE)

1998 • 49 citations

Evolutionary origins of trichomonad hydrogenosomes

1997 • 45 citations

Reclinomonas americana N. G., N. Sp., a New Freshwater Heterotrophic Flagellate

1993 • 42 citations

Mitochondrial Genomes of the Ciliates

1992 • 32 citations

Identification of the Mitochondrial Genome in the Chrysophyte Alga Ochromonas danica

1991 • 26 citations

A ribosomal protein gene cluster is encoded in the mitochondrial DNA of Dictyostelium discoideum : UGA termination codons and similarity of gene order to Acanthamoeba castellanii

1998 • 21 citations

Mitochondrial Genomics in Protists, an Approach to Probing Eukaryotic Evolution

1998 • 16 citations