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Detecting and Characterizing the Highly Divergent Plastid Genome of the Nonphotosynthetic Parasitic Plant Hydnora visseri (Hydnoraceae).
Genome biology and evolution - 6 Jan 2016
Naumann Julia, Der Joshua P, Wafula Eric K, Jones Samuel S, Wagner Sarah T, Honaas Loren A, Ralph Paula E, Bolin Jay F, Maass Erika, Neinhuis Christoph, Wanke Stefan, dePamphilis Claude W
Abstract excerpt
Plastid genomes of photosynthetic flowering plants are usually highly conserved in both structure and gene content. However, the plastomes of parasitic and mycoheterotrophic plants may be released from selective constraint due to the reduction or loss of photosynthetic ability. Here we present the greatly reduced and highly divergent, yet functional, plastome of the nonphotosynthetic holoparasite Hydnora visseri...
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