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   Organelle Statistics

Entrez Genomes currently contains 1768 Reference Sequences of Eukaryotic organelles:
Mitochondria1595
   Metazoa1456
   Fungi57
   Plants30
   Other49
   Kinetoplast 1
Mitochondrial Plasmids17
Plastids147
Nucleomorph8
chromatophore1
 Latest complete organelle genome:
Agapornis roseicollis (peach-faced lovebird) mitochondrion
Completion date: December 17, 2008 Size: 16732 bp
Reference: Pratt,R.C., Gibb,G.C., Morgan-Richards,M., Phillips,M.J., Hendy,M.D. and Penny,D.
Towards resolving deep Neoaves phylogeny: data, signal enhancement and priors

Mol. Biol. Evol. (2008) In press
PMID: 18981298

 First complete organelle genome:
Homo sapiens (human) mitochondrion
Publication date: Apr 9 1981 Size : 16,569 bp
Reference: Anderson S, Bankier AT, Barrell BG, de Bruijn MH, Coulson AR, Drouin J, Eperon IC, Nierlich DP, Roe BA, Sanger F, Schreier PH, Smith AJ, Staden R, and Young IG
Sequence and organization of the human mitochondrial genome,
Nature 290 (5806), 457-465 (1981)
PMID: 7219534

 Smallest complete organelle genome:
Plasmodium falciparum mitochondrion
Publication date: Jun 6, 2000 Size : 5967 bp
Reference: Conway,D.J., Fanello,C., Lloyd,J.M., Al-Joubori,B.M.A., Baloch,A.H., Somanath,S.D., Roper,C., Oduola,A.M.J., Mulder,B., Povoa,M.M., Singh,B. and Thomas,A.W.
Origin of Plasmodium falciparum malaria is traced by mitochondrial DNA,
Mol. Biochem. Parasitol. 111 (1), 163-171 (2000)
PMID: 11087926

 Largest complete organelle genome:
Arabidopsis thaliana mitochondrion
Publication date: Jun 6, 2000. Size : 366,924 bp
Reference:Unseld,M., Marienfeld,J.R., Brandt,P. and Brennicke,A.
The mitochondrial genome of Arabidopsis thaliana contains 57 genes in 366,924 nucleotides Unseld,M., Marienfeld,J.R., Brandt,P. and Brennicke,A.
Nature Genet. 15 (1), 57-61 (1997)
PMID: 10468594

 

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