Unparalleled replacement of native mitochondrial genes by foreign homologs in a holoparasitic plant

An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG IV

(2016)   BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Floral development and anatomy of pistillate flowers of Lophophytum (Balanophoraceae), with special reference to the embryo sac inversion

(2016) Hector A. Sato et al.   FLORA

Horizontal gene transfer in parasitic plants

(2015) Charles C Davis et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

Dynamic evolution ofGeraniummitochondrial genomes through multiple horizontal and intracellular gene transfers

(2015) Seongjun Park et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Miniaturized mitogenome of the parasitic plantViscum scurruloideumis extremely divergent and dynamic and has lost allnadgenes

(2015) Elizabeth Skippington et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The massive mitochondrial genome of the angiospermSilene noctiflorais evolving by gain or loss of entire chromosomes

(2015) Zhiqiang Wu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Phylogenetic relationships of Santalales with insights into the origins of holoparasitic Balanophoraceae

(2015) Huei-Jiun Su et al.   TAXON

Massive gene loss in mistletoe (Viscum, Viscaceae) mitochondria

(2015) G. Petersen et al.   Scientific Reports

RAxML version 8: a tool for phylogenetic analysis and post-analysis of large phylogenies

(2014) Alexandros Stamatakis   BIOINFORMATICS

Possible Loss of the Chloroplast Genome in the Parasitic Flowering Plant Rafflesia lagascae (Rafflesiaceae)

(2014) Jeanmaire Molina et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Homologous recombination and retention of a single form of most genes shape the highly chimeric mitochondrial genome of a cybrid plant

(2014) M. Virginia Sanchez-Puerta et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Genomic-scale exchange of mRNA between a parasitic plant and its hosts

(2014) G. Kim et al.   SCIENCE

Consed: a graphical editor for next-generation sequencing

(2013) David Gordon et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Mechanisms of Functional and Physical Genome Reduction in Photosynthetic and Nonphotosynthetic Parasitic Plants of the Broomrape Family

(2013) S. Wicke et al.   PLANT CELL

The Mitochondrial Genome of Soybean Reveals Complex Genome Structures and Gene Evolution at Intercellular and Phylogenetic Levels

(2013) Shengxin Chang et al.   PLoS One

Horizontal Transfer of Entire Genomes via Mitochondrial Fusion in the Angiosperm Amborella

(2013) D. W. Rice et al.   SCIENCE

Massive Mitochondrial Gene Transfer in a Parasitic Flowering Plant Clade

(2013) Zhenxiang Xi et al.   PLoS Genetics

Horizontal transfer of expressed genes in a parasitic flowering plant

(2012) Zhenxiang Xi et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Loss of Two Introns from the Magnolia tripetala Mitochondrial cox2 Gene Implicates Horizontal Gene Transfer and Gene Conversion as a Novel Mechanism of Intron Loss

(2012) N. J. Hepburn et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Rapid Evolution of Enormous, Multichromosomal Genomes in Flowering Plant Mitochondria with Exceptionally High Mutation Rates

(2012) Daniel B. Sloan et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Navigating the tip of the genomic iceberg: Next-generation sequencing for plant systematics

(2011) Shannon C. K. Straub et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Horizontal acquisition of multiple mitochondrial genes from a parasitic plant followed by gene conversion with host mitochondrial genes

(2011) Jeffrey P Mower et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Origins and Recombination of the Bacterial-Sized Multichromosomal Mitochondrial Genome of Cucumber

(2011) A. J. Alverson et al.   PLANT CELL

OrgConv: detection of gene conversion using consensus sequences and its application in plant mitochondrial and chloroplast homologs

(2010) Weilong Hao   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Morphogenesis Is Highly Aberrant in the Vegetative Body of the Holoparasite Lophophytum leandrii (Balanophoraceae): All Typical Vegetative Organs Are Absent and Many Tissues Are Highly Modified

(2010) Ana M. Gonzalez et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES

Insights into the Evolution of Mitochondrial Genome Size from Complete Sequences of Citrullus lanatus and Cucurbita pepo (Cucurbitaceae)

(2010) A. J. Alverson et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Gorgeous mosaic of mitochondrial genes created by horizontal transfer and gene conversion

(2010) W. Hao et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The evolution of parasitism in plants

(2010) James H. Westwood et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Velvet: Algorithms for de novo short read assembly using de Bruijn graphs

(2008) D. R. Zerbino et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Frequent, Phylogenetically Local Horizontal Transfer of the cox1 Group I Intron in Flowering Plant Mitochondria

(2008) M. V. Sanchez-Puerta et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Horizontal gene transfer in eukaryotic evolution

(2008) Patrick J. Keeling et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS