Claim · model-written summary
Parasitism-associated plastome degradation in Santalales may evolve in a lineage-specific manner.
- Taxon
- SantalalesSantalalese0
- Outcome
- plastome degradatione0
- Qualifier
- lineage-specific mannere0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundOrgan / stageInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleTreatmentComparatorSettingDirectionValue
Verbatim
e0“This implies the parasitism-associated plastome degradation in Santalales may evolve in a lineage-specific manner”
Title
Xiaorong Guo; Changkun Liu; Guangfei Zhang; et al. Frontiers in Genetics 2020. doi:10.3389/fgene.2020.00597
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Method / resource Complete plastomes were reported for three facultative hemiparasites (Pyrularia edulis, Osyris wightiana, Santalum album).
- Method / resource Complete plastomes were reported for two obligate hemiparasites (Viscum liquidambaricolum and V. ovalifolium).
- Observation Santalales hemiparasites show various degrees of plastome downsizing, structural rearrangement and gene loss.
- Observation Loss or pseudogenization of ndh genes was commonly observed in Santalales hemiparasites.
- Association The loss of ndh genes in Santalales hemiparasites may be correlated with the lifestyle shift from photoautotroph to hemiparasitism.
- Observation Obligate hemiparasites did not show a consistently higher level of gene loss or pseudogenization than facultative hemiparasites.
- Observation Closely related taxa tend to possess highly similar plastome size, structure and gene content.