title: Molecular Evolution: The Perplexing Diversity of Mitochondrial RNA Editing Systems.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA. Electronic address: dbsloan@rams.colostate.edu.
authors.forename: Daniel B
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: Sloan
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA.
authors.forename: Zhiqiang
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Wu
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D054629:Genome, Mitochondrial; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D059645:Mutation Rate; D017393:RNA Editing; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D012333:RNA, Messenger