Article
Miniaturized mitogenome of the parasitic plant Viscum scurruloideum is extremely divergent and dynamic and has lost all nad genes.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 7 Jul 2015
Skippington Elizabeth, Barkman Todd J, Rice Danny W, Palmer Jeffrey D
Abstract excerpt
Despite the enormous diversity among parasitic angiosperms in form and structure, life-history strategies, and plastid genomes, little is known about the diversity of their mitogenomes. We report the sequence of the wonderfully bizarre mitogenome of the hemiparasitic aerial mistletoe Viscum scurruloideum. This genome is only 66 kb in size, making it the smallest known angiosperm mitogenome by a factor of more...
Topics
- Base Sequence
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Electron Transport Complex I
- Genes, Mitochondrial
- Genetic Variation
- Genome, Mitochondrial
- Mitochondrial Proteins
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phylogeny
- Plant Proteins
- RNA, Plant
- RNA, Ribosomal
- Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid