Eiji Ohta

TL;DR: In this article, the complete sequence of the liverwort mitochondrial DNA was determined and 94 possible genes in the sequence of 186,608 base-pairs were detected, including genes for three species of ribosomal RNA, 29 genes for 27 species of transfer RNA and 30 open reading frames (ORFs) for functionally known proteins.

TL;DR: Several ribosomal proteins encoded by the liverworts mitochondrial genome differed substantially in size from their counterparts in E. coli and liverwort chloroplast.

TL;DR: It is concluded that vertical transmission from a common ancestor organism is the simplest explanation for the presence of cognate introns in liverwort and fungal mitochondrial genomes.

TL;DR: All of the identified tRNA genes are 'native' in liverwort mitochondria, not 'chloroplast-like' tRNAs as are found in the mitochondria of higher plants, which implies that the tRNA gene transfer from chloroplast to mitochondrial genome in higher plants has occurred after the divergence from bryophytes.

TL;DR: The complete nucleotide sequences from both chloroplast and mitochondrial genomes have been determined in the same organism.