Figure 1.

Gene content in seed plant mitochondrial genomes. Dark gray boxes indicate the presence of an intact reading frame or folding structure and, therefore, a putatively functional gene, while light gray boxes indicate the presence of a putative pseudogene. The numbers at the bottom of each gene group indicate the total number of intact genes for that species. Note that in some cases the presence of an intact gene sequence may not actually reflect functionality. In particular, for tRNA genes of chloroplast origin, it is possible that transferred sequences still appear intact, but nevertheless, are not functionally expressed in the mitochondrion [37,90]. GenBank accession numbers for each genome are indicated in parentheses.