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The authors suggest that plastid genomes of Krameria remain evolutionarily stable.
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- remain evolutionarily stablee5
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e5“plastid genomes of Krameria remain evolutionarily stable”
Title
Arjan Banerjee; Adam C. Schneider; Saša Stefanović International Journal of Plant Sciences 2022. doi:10.1086/719959
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Observation Krameria plastomes have essentially intact coding sequences.
- Mechanism The unexpected increase in Krameria plastome size is due to accumulation of elevated numbers of tandem repeats in the intergenic spaces of the large and small single-copy regions.
- Observation Photosynthetic genes in Krameria are maintained under purifying selection, with dN/dS values commensurate with those of autotrophic plant lineages.
- Observation Krameria has the largest and the most intact plastid genomes reported to date from parasitic angiosperms.
- Observation The authors suggest that Krameria plants are still reliant on photosynthesis as an important part of their nutrient acquisition strategy.