David B. Stern

TL;DR: Analyses of the Chlamydomonas genome advance the understanding of the ancestral eukaryotic cell, reveal previously unknown genes associated with photosynthetic and flagellar functions, and establish links between ciliopathy and the composition and function of flagella.

TL;DR: The results show that Drosophila genes have a wide range of sensitivity to inactivation by P elements, and provide a rationale for greatly expanding the BDGP primary collection based entirely on insertion site sequencing, and predict that this approach can bring >85% of all Dosophila open reading frames under experimental control.

TL;DR: A dynamic and unusual plastid genome whose existence in a model organism will allow its features to be tested functionally is revealed, and evidence that the SDRs were not derived from extant coding sequences is found, although some may have arisen from other genomic fragments.

TL;DR: This review covers four major chloroplast posttranscriptional processes: RNA processing, editing, splicing, and turnover, which involves proteins of the pentatricopeptide motif-containing family, which does not occur in prokaryotes.

TL;DR: The mitochondrial genomes of Citrullus lanatus and Cucurbita pepo are sequenced--the two smallest characterized cucurbit mitochondrial genomes--and their RNA editing content is determined and it is found that Cuculbita has a significantly higher synonymous substitution rate (and presumably mutation rate) than Citrulla but comparable levels of RNA editing.