Table 1.

List of species, in which rpl10 and its potential counterparts were identified in the mitochondrial DNAs

Group	Species name	Annotationa	Nucleotide positions (bp)b	Accession number	Reference
Protist	Reclinomonas americana	rpl10	5963–6544	AF007261	Lang et al.10
Green alga	Chaetosphaeridium globosum	orf126	38 019–38 399	AF494279	Turmel et al.22
	Chara vulgaris	−	30 284–30 781	AY267353	Turmel et al.23
Bryophyte	Marchantia polymorpha	orf168	184 854–185 360	M68929	Oda et al.14
	Megaceros aenigmaticus	ORF-bryo1	118 155–118 631	EU660574	Li et al.7
	Physcomitrella patens	orf187	40 074–40 637	AB251495	Terasawa et al.20
Gymnosperm	Cycas taitungensis	−	48 332–48 838	AP009381	Chaw et al.24
Angiosperm	Bambusa oldhamii	−c	162 094–162 555d	EU365401	Lin et al. (unpublished)
	Brassica napus	−c	219 858–219 707d	AP006444	Handa26
	Carica papaya	−	401 684–402 172	EU431224	Rice et al. (unpublished)
	Helianthus annuus	−	1095–1583	AM183222	Placido et al.27
	Nicotiana tobacum	orf159b	360 762–360 283	BA000042	Sugiyama et al.19
	Oryza sativa	−c	197 408–196 959d	BA000029	Notsu et al.25
	Solanum lycopersicum	−	430 703–430 348e	FJ374974	Carrari et al. (unpublished)
	Tripsacum dactyloides	−c	384 034–383 929d	DQ984517	Allen et al. (unpublished)
	Vitis vinifera	orf159	156 298–155 822	FM179380	Goremykin et al.21

^aMinus (−) means no annotation given in the registered sequence.

^bNucleotide positions are indicated with regard to the direction of ORF.

^cPseudogene.

^dEach nucleotide positions corresponds a region that showed homology to the entire ORF in other angiosperms.

^eThe 3′-terminal region of the ORF is missing due to a gap upstream of the position 430 348. The complete ORF has been determined in this study (accession no. AB518477).