Footprints of parasitism in the genome of the parasitic flowering plant Cuscuta campestris

Autor: Alexander Vogel, Rainer Schwacke, Alisandra K. Denton, Björn Usadel, Julien Hollmann, Karsten Fischer, Anthony Bolger, Maximilian H.-W. Schmidt, Marie E. Bolger, Heidrun Gundlach, Klaus F. X. Mayer, Hanna Weiss-Schneeweiss, Eva M. Temsch, Kirsten Krause
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Nature Communications, Vol 9, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2018)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-04344-z
Popis: Parasitic lifestyles leave unique genomic footprints. Here, the authors describe the genome sequence of a parasitic plant, Cuscuta campestris, and find that gene losses and host gene acquisitions reflect the independence from photosynthesis and the ability to retain and express chunks of foreign genomic DNA.
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