Mitochondrial DNA as a genomic jigsaw puzzle.
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.
Marande
William
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Department of Biochemistry, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec H3T 1J4, Canada.
Burger
Gertraud
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