Claim · model-written summary
The authors infer that parasites may vector horizontal gene transfer in angiosperms.
- Taxon
- angiospermsMagnoliopsidat0
- Outcome
- horizontal gene transfere0
- Qualifier
- parasites may be important vectorse0
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e0“suggesting that parasites may be important vectors of horizontal gene transfer in angiosperms”
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Title
Todd J Barkman; Joel R McNeal; Seok-Hong Lim; et al. BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-7-248
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Observation The mitochondrial phylogeny agrees with independent studies of non-parasitic plant relationships.
- Observation Mitochondrial phylogeny indicates at least 11 independent origins of parasitism in angiosperms.
- Observation Eight of the origins comprise entirely holoparasitic species lacking photosynthesis.
- Observation Modern parasites appear to have evolved disproportionately in certain lineages.
- Observation Endoparasitism arose convergently in four clades.
- Observation Single-gene analyses reveal multiple horizontal transfers of atp1 from hosts to parasite lineages.
- Observation A chimeric atp1 sequence supports recent host-to-parasite transfer in Pilostyles and multiple historical xenolog acquisitions.
- Association Origins of parasitism are strongly correlated with horizontal acquisitions of the invasive coxI group I intron.