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Science 19 October 2007:
Vol. 318. no. 5849, p. 415
DOI: 10.1126/science.1148033
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Mitochondrial DNA as a Genomic Jigsaw Puzzle

William Marande and Gertraud Burger*

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

Department of Biochemistry, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec H3T 1J4, Canada.

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: Gertraud.Burger{at}UMontreal.ca

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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)