Mitochondrial DNA as a Genomic Jigsaw Puzzle
- 19 October 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 318 (5849) , 415
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1148033
Abstract
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 moleculesKeywords
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