| Authors | Year | Title | Reference | Download |
| Oliveira D.C., Raychoudhury R., Lavrov D.V., and J. H. Werren | 2008 | Rapidly Evolving Mitochondrial Genome and Directional Selection in Mitochondrial Genes in the Parasitic Wasp Nasonia (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) | Mol. Biol. Evol. 25: 2167-2180 | |
| Wang X. and D.V. Lavrov | 2008 | Seventeen New Complete mtDNA Sequences Reveal Extensive Mitochondrial Genome Evolution within the Demospongiae | PLoS ONE 3(7): e2723. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0002723 | |
| Lavrov, D.V., Wang, X., and Kelly M. | 2008 | Reconstructing ordinal relationships in the Demospongiae using mitochondrial genomic data | Mol. Phyl. Evol. 49: 111-124. | |
| Kayal E., D.V. Lavrov | 2008 | The mitochondrial genome of Hydra oligactis (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) sheds new light on animal mtDNA evolution and cnidarian phylogeny. | Gene 410:177-186. | article
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| Lavrov D.V. | 2007 | Key transitions in animal evolution: a mitochondrial DNA perspective | Integrative and Comparative Biology 47:734-743. | PDF |
| Haen, K.M., Lang, B.F., Pomponi S.A., and D.V. Lavrov | 2007 | Glass sponges and bilaterian animals share derived mitochondrial genomic features: a common ancestry or parallel evolution? | Mol. Biol. Evol. 24:1518-1527 | PDF |
| Burger, G., Lavrov D.V., Forget L., and B.F. Lang | 2007 | Sequencing complete mitochondrial and plastid genomes | Nature Protocols. 2:603-614 | PDF |
| Wang X. and Lavrov D.V. | 2007 | Mitochondrial Genome of the Demosponge Oscarella carmela (Porifera, Demospongiae) Reveals Unexpected Complexity in the Common Ancestor of Sponges and Other Animals | Mol. Biol. Evol. 24:363-373 | article suppl.info |
| Shao Z., Graf S., Chaga O.Y. and D.V. Lavrov | 2006 | Mitochondrial genome of the moon jelly Aurelia aurita (Cnidaria, Scyphozoa): a linear DNA molecule encoding a putative DNA-dependent DNA polymerase | Gene 381: 92-101 | |
| Lavrov D.V. and Lang B.F. | 2005 | Poriferan mtDNA and animal phylogeny based on mitochondrial gene arrangements | Systematic Biology 54:651-659 | |
| Lavrov D.V., Forget L., Kelly, M., and Lang B.F. | 2005 | Mitochondrial genomes of two demosponges provide insights into an early stage of animal evolution | Mol. Biol. Evol. 22:1231-1239 | article
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| Lavrov D.V. and Lang B.F. | 2005 | Transfer RNA gene recruitment in mitochondrial DNA | Trends in Genetics 21:129-133 | |
| Lavrov D.V., W.M. Brown and J.L. Boore | 2004 | Phylogenetic position of the Pentastomida and (pan)crustacean relationships | Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 271:537-544 | |
| Lang B.F., Lavrov D.V., Burger, G | 2004 | Mitochondrial Genome Evolution | In: W.J. Lennarz and M.D. Lane, Eds. Encyclopedia of Biological Chemistry, Elsevier Science Inc. v.3 703-708 | |
| Lavrov D.V., J.L. Boore and W.M. Brown | 2002 | Complete mtDNA Sequences of Two Millipedes Suggest a New Model for Mitochondrial Gene Rearrangements: Duplication and Nonrandom Loss | Mol. Biol. Evol. 19:163-169 | |
| Lavrov D.V. and W.M. Brown | 2001 | Trichinella spiralis mtDNA: A nematode mitochondrial genome that encodes a putative ATP8 and normally structured tRNAs and has a gene arrangement relatable to those of coelomate metazoans | Genetics 157:621-637 | |
| Lavrov D.V., J.L. Boore and W.M. Brown | 2000 | A novel type of tRNA editing occurs in the mitochondrial tRNAs of the centipede Lithobius forficatus | PNAS 97:13738-13742 | |
| Lavrov D.V., J.L. Boore and W.M. Brown | 2000 | The Complete Mitochondrial DNA Sequence of the Horseshoe Crab Limulus polyphemus. | Mol. Biol. Evol. 17:813-824 | |
| Boore J.L., D.V. Lavrov and W.M. Brown | 1998 | Gene translocation links insects and crustaceans | Nature 392: 667-668 |