Diversity of mitochondrial genome organization

@article{Kolesnikov2012DiversityOM,
  title={Diversity of mitochondrial genome organization},
  author={A. A. Kolesnikov and Evgeny S Gerasimov},
  journal={Biochemistry (Moscow)},
  year={2012},
  volume={77},
  pages={1424-1435}
}
In this review, we discuss types of mitochondrial genome structural organization (architecture), which includes the following characteristic features: size and the shape of DNA molecule, number of encoded genes, presence of cryptogenes, and editing of primary transcripts. 
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