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Functionally equivalent tissues in Cephalotus and Nepenthes tended to express similar gene sets.

Taxon: CephalotusCephalotuse0
Organ / stage: Functionally equivalent tissuese1
Outcome: express similar gene setse1

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“The Australian pitcher plant Cephalotus and the Asian pitcher plant Nepenthes exhibit striking morphological and functional similarities”
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“Functionally equivalent tissues in the two species tended to express similar gene sets”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 697–783

Title

Transcriptomic prey‐capture responses in convergently evolved carnivorous pitcher plants

Takanori Wakatake; Kenji Fukushima New Phytologist 2025. doi:10.1111/nph.70848

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Digestive enzyme genes show distinct transcriptional regulation between the two pitcher plants.

Taxon: CephalotusCephalotuse0
Gene: digestive enzyme genese3
Outcome: transcriptional regulation of digestive enzyme genese3

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“The Australian pitcher plant Cephalotus and the Asian pitcher plant Nepenthes exhibit striking morphological and functional similarities”
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“distinct transcriptional regulation of digestive enzyme genes”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 918–979

Title

Transcriptomic prey‐capture responses in convergently evolved carnivorous pitcher plants

Takanori Wakatake; Kenji Fukushima New Phytologist 2025. doi:10.1111/nph.70848

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Multiple genes preferentially expressed in gland-containing tissues show combined convergence in expression and protein sequences.

Taxon: CephalotusCephalotuse0
Organ / stage: gland-containing tissuese4
Outcome: combined convergence in expression and protein sequencese4

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“The Australian pitcher plant Cephalotus and the Asian pitcher plant Nepenthes exhibit striking morphological and functional similarities”
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“we found multiple cases of combined convergence in expression and protein sequences in genes preferentially expressed in gland-containing tissues”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 995–1140

Title

Transcriptomic prey‐capture responses in convergently evolved carnivorous pitcher plants

Takanori Wakatake; Kenji Fukushima New Phytologist 2025. doi:10.1111/nph.70848

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Cephalotus pitcher-shaped leaves attract many insects.

Taxon: CephalotusCephalotuse1
Interactor: insectsInsectae1other
Outcome: pitcher-shaped leaves that attract many insectse1

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“The carnivorous plant Cephalotus produces pitcher-shaped leaves that attract many insects”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1899–1988

Title

The natural history of biotic interactions, highlighting nutrient uptake mutualisms, pollination, seed protection and viability threats in a nutrient-impoverished biome

Byron B. Lamont Journal of Natural History 2025. doi:10.1080/00222933.2025.2595190

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Observation Hakea woody fruits deter granivory by black cockatoos.

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An AM-associated CHITINASE gene may have been co-opted to encode a digestive enzyme in Cephalotus.

Taxon: CephalotusCephalotuse4
Gene: AM-associated CHITINASEe4
Outcome: encodes a digestive enzymee4
Qualifier: gene co-optione4

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“An AM-associated CHITINASE gene encodes a digestive enzyme in the carnivorous plant Cephalotus, suggesting gene co-option”
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Title

Convergent losses of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis in carnivorous plants

Héctor Montero; Matthias Freund; Kenji Fukushima New Phytologist 2025. doi:10.1111/nph.70544

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Observation Losses of the arbuscular mycorrhizal trait are convergent across carnivorous plant lineages, coincident with or predating carnivory.
Observation Roridula gorgonias retains symbiosis-related genes.
Observation Roridula gorgonias forms arbuscules.
Observation Brocchinia reducta shows signatures of the early stages of AM trait loss.
Association AM symbiosis and carnivory show a mutually exclusive trend, with rare coexistence.
Observation Coexistence of AM symbiosis and carnivory is rare.

Observationobservedoriginal resultbasis n/a

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The cultivar Cephalotus ‘Kai’s Error’ was named and described.

Taxon: CephalotusCephalotuse0
Material: Cephalotus ‘Kai’s Error’e0
Outcome: Cephalotus ‘Kai’s Error’e0

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“Eight new carnivorous plant cultivars are named and described: Cephalotus ‘Kai’s Error’”
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New cultivars

Craig Heath; Alexander Fisch; Fraser Anderson; et al. Carnivorous Plant Newsletter 2021. doi:10.55360/cpn501.cr501

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Observation The cultivar Dionaea ‘CCCP Destruction’ was named and described.
Observation The cultivar Nepenthes ‘Pennywise’ was named and described.
Observation The cultivar Nepenthes ‘Simon’ was named and described.
Observation The cultivar Sarracenia ‘Caitrin Claire’ was named and described.
Observation The cultivar Sarracenia ‘Dr M.’ was named and described.
Observation The cultivar Sarracenia ‘Red Closed Trap’ was named and described.
Observation The cultivar Genlisea hispidula ‘Odin’ was named and described.

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Summer temperature with short-to-neutral day length was a malformed-leaf inducing combination.

Taxon: CephalotusCephalotuse0
Outcome: average frequencye0
Value: once-in-a-lifetimee0
Setting: natural Cephalotus habitatse0

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“combinations of a summer temperature with a short-to-neutral day length, whose average frequency in the natural Cephalotus habitats corresponded to a once-in-a-lifetime event for this perennial species.”
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Title

A discordance of seasonally covarying cues uncovers misregulated phenotypes in the heterophyllous pitcher plantCephalotus follicularis

Kenji Fukushima; Hideki Narukawa; Gergo Palfalvi; et al. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences 2021. doi:10.1098/rspb.2020.2568

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Association Temperature and photoperiod jointly regulated flat versus pitcher leaf formation.
Intervention effect Unusual combinations of normal-range cues produced malformed leaves more often than typical combinations.

Observationobservedoriginal resultbasis n/a

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Cephalotus ‘OG Black’ was named and described.

Taxon: CephalotusCephalotuse0
Material: Cephalotus ‘OG Black’e0
Outcome: named and describede0

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“Six new carnivorous plant cultivars are named and described: Cephalotus ‘OG Black’”
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Title

New cultivars

Brian Lipinski; Craig Heath; Stephen Wang; et al. Carnivorous Plant Newsletter 2020. doi:10.55360/cpn492.cr492

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Observation Dionaea ‘CCCP Tasmanian Devil’ was named and described.
Observation Heliamphora ‘Scylla’ was named and described.
Observation Pinguicula ‘Razzberry Blonde’ was named and described.
Observation Sarracenia ‘Atlas 5’ was named and described.
Observation Sarracenia ‘Christophe Maerten’ was named and described.

Associationobservedoriginal resultmeasured

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Leaf transcriptome and gene repertoire analyses identified genetic changes associated with prey attraction and capture.

Taxon: CephalotusCephalotust0
Organ / stage: leafe0
Outcome: prey attraction, capturee0

Not reportedGeneDirection

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“Transcriptome comparison of the two leaf types and gene repertoire analysis identified genetic changes associated with prey attraction, capture, digestion and nutrient absorption.”
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“Cephalotus”
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Title

Genome of the pitcher plant Cephalotus reveals genetic changes associated with carnivory

Kenji Fukushima; Xiaodong Fang; David Alvarez-Ponce; et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution 2017. doi:10.1038/s41559-016-0059

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Associationobservedoriginal resultmeasured

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Leaf transcriptome and gene repertoire analyses identified genetic changes associated with digestion and nutrient absorption.

Taxon: CephalotusCephalotust0
Organ / stage: leafe0
Outcome: digestion and nutrient absorptione0

Not reportedDirection

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“Transcriptome comparison of the two leaf types and gene repertoire analysis identified genetic changes associated with prey attraction, capture, digestion and nutrient absorption.”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 404–583

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“Cephalotus”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 28–38

Title

Genome of the pitcher plant Cephalotus reveals genetic changes associated with carnivory

Kenji Fukushima; Xiaodong Fang; David Alvarez-Ponce; et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution 2017. doi:10.1038/s41559-016-0059

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