The mitochondrial genome of Arabidopsis is composed of both native and immigrant information
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The mitochondrial genome of Arabidopsis is composed of both native and immigrant information
Abstract
Plants contain large mitochondrial genomes, which are several times as complex as those in animals, fungi or algae. However, genome size is not correlated with information content. The mitochondrial genome (mtDNA) of Arabidopsis specifies only 58 genes in 367 kb, whereas the 184 kb mtDNA in the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha codes for 66 genes, and the 58 kb genome in the green alga Prototheca wickerhamii encodes 63 genes. In Arabidopsis' mtDNA, genes for subunits of complex II, for several ribosomal proteins and for 16 tRNAs are missing, some of which have been transferred recently to the nuclear genome. Numerous integrated fragments originate from alien genomes, including 16 sequence stretches of plastid origin, 41 fragments of nuclear (retro)transposons and two fragments of fungal viruses. These immigrant sequences suggest that the large size of plant mitochondrial genomes is caused by secondary expansion as a result of integration and propagation, and is thus a derived trait established during the evolution of land plants.
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