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Double-strand break repair processes drive evolution of the mitochondrial genome in Arabidopsis

Jaime I Davila, Maria P Arrieta-Montiel, Yashitola Wamboldt, Jun Cao, Joerg Hagmann, Vikas Shedge, Ying-Zhi Xu, Detlef Weigel and Sally A Mackenzie*

BMC Biology 2011, 9:64 doi:10.1186/1741-7007-9-64

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The intriguing evolutionary dynamics of plant mitochondrial DNA

Nicolas Galtier BMC Biology 2011, 9:61 (27 September 2011)

Next-gen sequence of plant mitochondrial DNA indicates that the dynamic evolution of these comparatively large genomes, in relation to most animal mitochondria, is driven by the need for repair machinery.