Rapid Evolution of Enormous, Multichromosomal Genomes in Flowering Plant Mitochondria with Exceptionally High Mutation Rates

By Daniel B. Sloan, Andrew J. Alverson, John P. Chuckalovcak, Martin Wu, D. E. Mccauley, Jeffrey D. Palmer, D. Taylor. PLoS Biology, 2012

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A pair of species within the genus Silene have evolved the largest known mitochondrial genomes, coinciding with extreme changes in mutation rate, recombination activity, and genome structure.

Subfields: Genetics, Molecular Biology, Plant Science

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• Plant Mitochondrial Genome Evolution and Cytoplasmic Male Sterility (2017, background): “Many examples of CMS stem from these consequences of recombination (Sloan et al., 2012b; Chen and Liu, 2014; Yamagishi and Bhat, 2014; Charlesworth, 2017; Tang et al., 2017), and include chimeric gene fusions (Rathburn and Hedgcoth, 1991; Tuteja et al., 2013; Wang et al., 2013b; Szklarczyk et al.,…”
• Genomic architectural variation of plant mitochondria—A review of multichromosomal structuring (2020, background): “The largest plant mt genome, 11 300 kb, has been recorded from Silene conica (Caryophyllaceae) (Sloan et al., 2012; Sloan, 2013).”