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Comparative genomic analyses of frog virus 3, type species of the genus Ranavirus (family Iridoviridae).
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Mitochondrial DNA suggests at least 11 origins of parasitism in angiosperms and reveals genomic chimerism in parasitic plants
TLDR
The results of a phylogenetic analysis of 102 species of seed plants indicate that the parasitic lifestyle has arisen repeatedly in angiosperm evolutionary history and results in increasing parasite genomic chimerism over time.
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One thousand plant transcriptomes and the phylogenomics of green plants
  • James H. Michael S. Eric J. Michael K. Matthew A. Sean W Leebens-Mack Barker Carpenter Deyholos Gitzendanne, J. Leebens-Mack, G. Wong
  • Biology, Environmental Science
    Nature
  • 7 October 2019
TLDR
It is found that large expansions of gene families preceded the origins of green plants, land plants and vascular plants, whereas whole-genome duplications are inferred to have occurred repeatedly throughout the evolution of flowering plants and ferns.
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Independent and combined analyses of sequences from all three genomic compartments converge on the root of flowering plant phylogeny.
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Results are presented from separate and combined genomic analyses of new and previously published data, including six and nine genes for different subsets of taxa that suggest Amborella + Nymphaeales (water lilies) are the first-branching angiosperm lineage.
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Miniaturized mitogenome of the parasitic plant Viscum scurruloideum is extremely divergent and dynamic and has lost all nad genes
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The mitochondrial genome of an aerobic parasitic plant, the mistletoe Viscum scurruloideum, is presented, which is miniaturized, shows clear signs of rapid and degenerative evolution, and lacks all genes for complex I of the respiratory electron-transfer chain.
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Mitochondrial DNA sequences reveal the photosynthetic relatives of Rafflesia, the world's largest flower.
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The results indicate that the previous significant difficulties associated with phylogenetic placement of holoparasitic plants may be overcome by using mitochondrial DNA so that a broader understanding of the origins and evolution of parasitism may emerge.
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Elucidating the evolutionary history of the Southeast Asian, holoparasitic, giant-flowered Rafflesiaceae: pliocene vicariance, morphological convergence and character displacement.
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Convergent evolution of caffeine in plants by co-option of exapted ancestral enzymes
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It is shown that convergent caffeine production, surprisingly, has evolved by two previously unknown biochemical pathways in chocolate, citrus, and guaraná plants using either caffeine synthase- or xanthine methyltransferase-like enzymes.
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Accelerated Rates of Floral Evolution at the Upper Size Limit for Flowers
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Reconstruction of Solanaceae Phylogeny Using the Nuclear Gene SAMT
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The results obtained in this study indicate that expanded sampling of taxa for SAMT and the study of additional nuclear gene sequences in conjunction with cpDNA will be valuable towards improving the understanding of Solanaceae phylogeny.
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