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Citation for Study 15797

About Citation title: "The dynamic history of plastid genomes in the Campanulaceae sensu lato is unique among angiosperms".
About Study name: "The dynamic history of plastid genomes in the Campanulaceae sensu lato is unique among angiosperms".
About This study is part of submission 15797 (Status: Published).

Citation

Knox E.B. 2014. The dynamic history of plastid genomes in the Campanulaceae sensu lato is unique among angiosperms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A., .

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  • Knox E.B. (submitter) Phone 812-855-9601

Abstract

Why have some plants lost the organizational stability in plastid genomes (plastomes) that evolved in their algal ancestors? During the endosymbiotic transformation of a cyanobacterium into the eukaryotic plastid, most cyanobacterial genes were transferred to the nucleus or otherwise lost from the plastome, and the resulting plastome architecture in land plants confers organizational stability, as evidenced by the conserved gene order among bryophytes and lycophytes, while ferns, gymnosperms, and angiosperms share a single, 30-kilobase inversion. Although some additional gene losses have occurred, gene additions to angiosperm plastomes were previously unknown. Plastomes in the Campanulaceae sensu lato have incorporated dozens of large, open reading frames (ORFs; putative protein-coding genes). These insertions apparently caused many of the 125+ large inversions now known in this small dicot clade. This phylogenetically restricted phenomenon is not biogeographically localized, which indicates that these ORFs came from the nucleus or (less likely) a cryptic endosymbiont.

Keywords

plastid genome, phylogeny, inversion, foreign DNA, Campanulaceae, Cyphiaceae, Lobeliaceae

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