Jessica M. Warren

This study shows that features of mitochondrial ribosomes, such as host protein acquisition and structural changes, are also present in an ancient insect endosymbiont, suggesting these traits arise from endosymbiont ancestry rather than mitochondrial specificity.

The paper identifies mirror tRNA pairs produced from opposite strands of the same locus, demonstrating a novel mechanism for maintaining tRNA diversity in mitochondrial genomes.

The paper compares mitochondrial and chloroplast proteomes across two flowering plant species to understand how gene loss and transfer affect organellar translation machinery.

This study investigates how photosynthesis loss and horizontal gene transfer reshape organellar translation and tRNA metabolism in holoparasitic plants.

The paper identifies fungal-derived tRNA genes in orchid mitochondria that are transcribed, modified, and aminoacylated, suggesting functional integration into the mitochondrial translation system.

The paper characterizes tRNA aminoacylation in Arabidopsis and shows higher rates in organellar tRNAs compared to nuclear/cytosolic tRNAs.

The paper develops a combined tRNA sequencing protocol to measure expression and post-transcriptional modifications in plants, finding conserved and species-specific modification patterns in Arabidopsis thaliana.

The paper introduces CyMIRA, a curated database of cytonuclear molecular interactions in Arabidopsis, to standardize and compare studies on evolutionary genomic data.