Molecular Evolution: The Perplexing Diversity of Mitochondrial RNA Editing Systems

Daniel B Sloan; Zhiqiang Wu

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2015.11.009

Molecular Evolution: The Perplexing Diversity of Mitochondrial RNA Editing Systems

Curr Biol. 2016 Jan 11;26(1):R22-4. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.11.009.

Authors

Daniel B Sloan¹, Zhiqiang Wu²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA. Electronic address: dbsloan@rams.colostate.edu.
² Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA.

PMID: 26766226
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.11.009

Abstract

New analysis of rapidly evolving mitochondrial genomes in calcaronean sponges has demonstrated that accurate gene expression requires systematic nucleotide insertion throughout RNA transcripts, altering previous views that RNA editing systems are difficult to maintain in genomes with high mutation rates.

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MeSH terms

Base Sequence
Evolution, Molecular*
Genome, Mitochondrial*
Molecular Sequence Data
Mutation Rate
RNA Editing
RNA, Messenger / metabolism

Substances

RNA, Messenger