Note: Front Cover -- Advances in Botanical Research -- Mitochondrial Genome Evolution -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Contents of Volumes 35-62 -- Chapter One - Mitochondrial and Eukaryotic Origins: A Critical Review -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. THE EVOLUTION OF EUKARYOTES IS ONE OF SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIPS -- 3. A SINGLE ORIGIN OF MITOCHONDRIA? -- 4. TRADITIONAL HYPOTHESES ON THE ORIGIN OF EUKARYOTES AND MITOCHONDRIA -- 5. SYMBIOGENESIS HYPOTHESES ON THE ORIGIN OF EUKARYOTES -- 6. IMPLICATIONS OF THE SYMBIOGENESIS HYPOTHESES -- 7. THE QUEST FOR THE ROOT OF THE EUKARYOTIC TREE FROM A MITOCHONDRIAL PERSPECTIVE -- 8. DID EUKARYOTES EMERGE FROM WITHIN ARCHAEA OR VICE VERSA? -- 9. CONCLUSIONS -- GLOSSARY -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter Two - Gene Content and Gene Transfer from Mitochondria to the Nucleus During Evolution -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. GENE CONTENT OF LAND PLANT MITOCHONDRIA -- 3. GENE TRANSLOCATION AND INTEGRATION -- 4. PROMOTER ACQUISITION -- 5. TARGETING SIGNAL ACQUISITION -- 6. GENE SUBSTITUTION -- 7. PERSPECTIVES ON GENE TRANSFER ANALYSIS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter Three - The Role of Horizontal Transfer in Shaping the Plant Mitochondrial Genome -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. ENDOSYMBIOTIC GENE TRANSFER -- 3. INTERSPECIFIC TRANSFER -- 4. INTRACELLULAR TRANSFER -- 5. INTERSPECIFIC AND INTER COMPARTMENTAL TRANSFER -- 6. MECHANISMS OF TRANSFER -- 7. EVOLUTIONARY SIGNIFICANCE -- 8. FUTURE PROSPECTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter Four - Mitochondrial Genome Evolution and Gynodioecy -- 1. EVOLUTIONARY DYNAMICS OF GYNODIOECY -- 2. GENOME EVOLUTION AND GYNODIOECY -- REFERENCES -- Chapter Five - Cytonuclear Adaptation in Plants -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. CYTONUCLEAR COADAPTATION -- 3. THE INVOLVEMENT OF ORGANELLES IN PLANT ADAPTATION TO THEIR ENVIRONMENT -- 4. CONCLUSION AND PERSPECTIVES FOR FURTHER RESEARCH. , ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter Six - Mitochondrial Genomes of Photosynthetic Euglenids and Alveolates -- 1. MITOCHONDRIAL GENOMES OF EUGLENIDS -- 2. MITOCHONDRIAL GENOMES OF PHOTOSYNTHETIC ALVEOLATES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter Seven - Evolution of Mitochondrial Introns in Plants and Photosynthetic Microbes -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. CATEGORIES OF MITOCHONDRIAL INTRONS IN PLANTS AND ALGAE -- 3. DISTRIBUTION OF MITOCHONDRIAL INTRONS IN PLANTS AND PHOTOSYNTHETIC MICROBES -- 4. LIFE CYCLE OF GROUP I/II INTRON MOBILE GENETIC ELEMENTS -- 5. PROTEIN MACHINERY FOR GROUP I/II INTRON SPLICING IN PLANTS AND ALGAE -- 6. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SPLICING AND OTHER EVENTS IN THE MITOCHONDRION -- 7. FUTURE PERSPECTIVES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter Eight - Green Algae Genomics: A Mitochondrial Perspective -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. CHLOROPHYTE GENOMES OVERVIEW -- 3. MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME EVOLUTION -- 4. COMPARATIVE GENOMICS AND ACQUISITION OF NEW METABOLIC CAPABILITIES -- 5. PERSPECTIVES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter Nine - Recombination in the Stability, Repair and Evolution of the Mitochondrial Genome -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. STRUCTURE AND VARIATION OF PLANT MITOCHONDRIAL GENOMES -- 3. RECOMBINATION IN MTDNA MAINTENANCE -- 4. GENES INVOLVED IN MTDNA REPLICATION, REPAIR AND RECOMBINATION -- 5. CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES -- REFERENCES -- Chapter Ten - Mitochondrial Genome Evolution and the Emergence of PPR Proteins -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. SPECIFIC GENE EXPRESSION PROCESSES IN PLANT MITOCHONDRIA -- 3. EVOLUTION OF MITOCHONDRIAL GENE EXPRESSION PROCESSES AND CORRELATIONS WITH MITOCHONDRIAL GENOMES STRUCTURE -- 4. DIVERSITY AND EVOLUTION OF PPR PROTEINS -- 5. CORRELATIONS BETWEEN THE EMERGENCE OF PPR PROTEINS AND SPECIFIC GENE EXPRESSION PROCESSES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES. , Chapter Eleven - Evolution of Protein Import Pathways -- 1. EVOLUTION OF MITOCHONDRIA: FROM BACTERIUM TO ENDOSYMBIONT -- 2. TARGETING SIGNALS -- 3. TRANSLOCASE OF THE OUTER MEMBRANE AND SORTING AND ASSEMBLY MACHINERY -- 4. THE INTERMEMBRANE SPACE -- 5. THE INNER MEMBRANE -- 6. MITOCHONDRIAL PRECURSOR PROCESSING AND PRESEQUENCE DEGRADATION -- 7. CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter Twelve - Macromolecules Trafficking to Plant Mitochondria -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. PROTEIN IMPORT INTO MITOCHONDRIA -- 3. TARGETING SIGNALS -- 4. DUAL TARGETING OF PROTEINS -- 5. CYTOSOLIC MRNA TARGETING TO THE VICINITY OF MITOCHONDRIA -- 6. TRANSFER RNA IMPORT -- 7. DNA UPTAKE INTO MITOCHONDRIA -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- Color Plates.