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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 PDF
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 PDF
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. PDF
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
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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 PDF
Lavrov D.V. and Lang B.F. 2005 Poriferan mtDNA and animal phylogeny based on mitochondrial gene arrangements Systematic Biology 54:651-659 PDF
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 PDF
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 PDF
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 PDF
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 PDF
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 PDF
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 PDF
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 PDF
Boore J.L., D.V. Lavrov and W.M. Brown 1998 Gene translocation links insects and crustaceans Nature 392: 667-668 PDF


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