Review Article

Cost of Having the Largest Mitochondrial Genome: Evolutionary Mechanism of Plant Mitochondrial Genome

Figure 1

Illustration of a simplified angiosperm mitochondrial genome. (a) Map configuration derived from chromosome walking. Two closed circles share sequence at the region shown by the arrow. (b) Dissolution of the figure 8-like map to create the master circle. The arrows indicate the duplicated sequences introduced into the master circle.
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