Publications
25) Grewe F, Edger PP, Keren I, Sultan L, Pires JC, Ostersetzer-Biran O, Mower JP. Comparative analysis of 11 Brassicales mitochondrial genomes and the mitochondrial transcriptome of Brassica oleracea. Mitochondrion, in press.
24) Zhu A, Guo W, Jain K, Mower J. Unprecedented heterogeneity in the synonymous substitution rate within a plant genome. Mol Biol Evol 2014, 31:1228–1236.
23) Guo W, Grewe F, Cobo-Clark A, Fan W, Duan Z, Adams RP, Schwarzbach AE, Mower JP. Evidence for substoichiometric shifting between isomeric forms of the plastid genome in Juniperus. Genome Biol Evol 2014, 6:580–590.
22) Zhang J, Ruhlman T, Mower JP, Jansen RK. Comparative analyses of two Geraniaceae transcriptomes using next-generation sequencing. BMC Plant Biol 2013, 13:228.
21) Guo W, Mower JP. Evolution of plant mitochondrial intron-encoded maturases: frequent lineage-specific loss and recurrent intracellular transfer to the nucleus. J Mol Evol 2013, 77:43–54.
20) Grewe F, Guo W, Gubbels E, Hansen AK, Mower JP. Complete plastid genomes from Ophioglossum californicum, Psilotum nudum, and Equisetum hyemale reveal an ancestral land plant genome structure and resolve the position of Equisetales among monilophytes. BMC Evol Biol 2013, 13:8.
19) Mower JP, Jain K, Hepburn NJ. The role of horizontal transfer in shaping the plant mitochondrial genome. In: Advances in Botanical Research Volume 63: Mitochondrial Genome Evolution. Maréchal-Drouard L (ed). Elsevier. 2012. pp 41-69.
18) Hepburn NJ, Schmidt DW, Mower JP. Loss of two introns from the Magnolia tripetala mitochondrial cox2 gene implicates horizontal gene transfer and gene conversion as a novel mechanism of intron loss. Mol Biol Evol 2012, 29:3111-3120.
17) Mower JP, Case AL, Floro ER, Willis JH. Evidence against equimolarity of large repeat arrangements and a predominant master circle structure of the mitochondrial genome from a monkeyflower (Mimulus guttatus) lineage with cryptic CMS. Genome Biol Evol 2012, 4:670-686.
16) Mower JP, Sloan DB, Alverson AJ. Plant mitochondrial genome diversity: the genomics revolution. In: Plant Genome Diversity Volume 1: Plant Genomes, their Residents, and their Evolutionary Dynamics. Wendel JF, Greilhuber J, Dolezel J, Leitch IJ (eds). Springer:Dordrecht, 2012. pp 123-144.
15) Mower JP, Stefanovic S, Hao W, Gummow JS, Jain K, Ahmed D, Palmer JD. Horizontal acquisition of multiple mitochondrial genes from a parasitic plant followed by gene conversion with host mitochondrial genes. BMC Biol 2010, 8:150.
14) Mower JP, Bonen L. Ribosomal protein L10 is encoded in the mitochondrial genome of many land plants and green algae. BMC Evol Biol 2009, 9:265.
13) Drinnenberg IA, Weinberg DE, Xie KT, Mower JP, Wolfe KH, Fink GR, Bartel DP. RNAi in budding yeast. Science 2009, 326:544-550.
12) Mower JP. The PREP suite: predictive RNA editors for plant mitochondrial genes, chloroplast genes and user-defined alignments. Nucleic Acids Res 2009, 37:W253-259.
11) Sanchez-Puerta MV, Cho Y, Mower JP, Alverson AJ, Palmer JD. Frequent, phylogenetically local horizontal transfer of the cox1 group I intron in flowering plant mitochondria. Mol Biol Evol 2008, 25:1762-1777.
10) Mower JP. Modeling sites of RNA editing as a fifth nucleotide state reveals progressive loss of edited sites from angiosperm mitochondria. Mol Biol Evol 2008, 25:52-61.
9) Mower JP, Touzet P, Gummow JS, Delph LS, Palmer JD. Extensive variation in synonymous substitution rates in mitochondrial genes of seed plants. BMC Evol Biol 2007, 7:135.
8) Chumley TW, Palmer JD, Mower JP, Fourcade HM, Calie PJ, Boore JL, Jansen RK. The complete chloroplast genome sequence of Pelargonium x hortorum: Organization and evolution of the largest and most highly rearranged chloroplast genome of land plants. BMC Evol Biol2006, 23:2175-2190.
7) Mower JP, Palmer JD. Patterns of partial RNA editing in mitochondrial genes of Beta vulgaris. Mol Genet Genomics 2006, 276:285-293.
6) Parkinson CL, Mower JP, Qiu YL, Shirk AJ, Song K, Young ND, dePamphilis CW, Palmer JD. Multiple major increases and decreases in mitochondrial substitution ratesin the plant family Geraniaceae. BMC Evol Biol 2005, 5:73.
5) Mower JP. PREP-Mt: predictive RNA editor for plant mitochondrial genes. BMC Bioinformatics 2005, 6:96.
4) Cho Y, Mower JP, Qiu YL, Palmer JD. Mitochondrial substitution rates are extraordinarily elevated in a genus of flowering plants. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2004, 101:17741-17746.
3) Mower JP, Stefanovic S, Young GJ, Palmer JD. Gene transfer from parasitic to host plants. Nature 2004, 432:165-166.
2) Wang D, Oakley T, Mower J, Shimmin LC, Yim S, Roberts T, Honeycutt RL, Tsao H, Li WH. Molecular evolution of bat color vision genes.BMC Evol Biol2004, 21:295-302.
1) Goertzen LG, Francisco-Ortega J, Santos-Guerra A, Mower JP, Linder CR, Jansen RK. Molecular systematics of the Asteriscus alliance (Asteraceae: Inuleae) II: Combined nuclear and chloroplast data. Syst Bot 2002, 27:815-823
