I think that this is already unknown in plants. In mammals you can take a
look to this recent paper: R. Zardoya et al.(1995) Current Genetics 28,
94-96, which details some aspects on repeats in the D-loop region of
mitochondrial genomes.
J.M. Bautista
On Fri, 8 Dec 1995, Konstantin Krutovskii wrote:
> Dear bioneters,>
> I wonder if any regular, conservative and frequently distributed repeats
> or genetic elements not shorter than 15-20 bp exist in plant
> mitochondrial genome. I would appreciate it very much if
> you could help me to find any related information on this
> matter or recommend me papers where I can find it.
>> Sincerely,
>> Dr. Konstantin Krutovskii