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   Organelle Statistics

Entrez Genomes currently contains 1551 Reference Sequences of Eukaryotic organelles:
Mitochondria1417
   Metazoa1282
   Fungi54
   Plants29
   Other47
   Kinetoplast 1
Mitochondrial Plasmids15
Plastids134
Nucleomorph8
 Latest complete organelle genome:
Antedon mediterranea (feather star) mitochondrion

Completion date: May 17, 2008 Size: 16156 bp
Reference:Perseke,M., Fritzsch,G., Ramsch,K., Bernt,M., Merkle,D., Middendorf,M., Bernhard,D., Stadler,P.F. and Schlegel,M.
Evolution of mitochondrial gene orders in echinoderms

Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 47 (2), 885-864 (2008)
PMID: 18280182
 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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