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Mitochondrial DNA as a genomic jigsaw puzzle
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Mitochondrial DNA as a genomic jigsaw puzzle
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In mitochondria of the unicellular eukaryote Diplonema, genes are systematically fragmented into small pieces that are encoded on separate chromosomes, transcribed individually, and then concatenated into contiguous messenger RNA molecules.
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Genetics. Why genomes in pieces?Science. 2007 Oct 19;318(5849):405-7. doi: 10.1126/science.1150280. Science. 2007. PMID: 17947572 No abstract available.
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