Pervasive survival of expressed mitochondrial <it>rps14 </it>pseudogenes in grasses and their relatives for 80 million years following three functional transfers to the nucleus
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Many mitochondrial genes, especially ribosomal protein genes, have been frequently transferred as functional entities to the nucleus during plant evolution, often by an RNA-mediated process. A notable case of transfer involves the &l...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2006-07-01
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Series: | BMC Evolutionary Biology |
Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/6/55 |