Why genes persist in organelle genomes
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* Corresponding author: James Whelan seamus@cyllene.uwa.edu.au
Genome Biology 2005, 6:110 doi:10.1186/gb-2005-6-5-110
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Lateral gene transfer between prokaryotes and multicellular eukaryotes: ongoing and significant? Vera ID Ros, Gregory DD Hurst BMC Biology 2009, 7:20 (5 May 2009) Ros and Hurst comment on the recent study showing that laterally acquired genes are highly expressed in their recipient host, and discuss the evolutionary importance of lateral gene transfer.
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Han Ong, Jeffrey D Palmer BMC Evolutionary Biology 2006, 6:55 (14 July 2006) Despite ancient transfers of the mitochondrial gene rps14 to the nucleus within the grass order Poales, expressed mitochondrial rps14 pseudogenes persist, suggesting that plant mitochondrial genomes can resist forces leading to gene inactivation.
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Comparative rates of evolution in endosymbiotic nuclear genomes Nicola J Patron, Matthew B Rogers, Patrick J Keeling BMC Evolutionary Biology 2006, 6:46 (14 June 2006) Despite their similarity in structure, nucleomorph genomes from a cryptomonad and a chlorarachniophyte are evolving at different rates, as shown by comparing the rate of evolution in their nuclear, nucleomorph and plastid genomes.
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