Claim · model-written summary
Gene gain was identified as the primary driver of functional innovation and adaptation.
- Taxon
- Sarracenia
Sarraceniae0
- Outcome
- functional innovation and adaptatione0
- Qualifier
- gene gaine0
Verbatim
e0“gene gain, rather than loss, was the primary driver of functional innovation and adaptation in Sarracenia”
Title
Magdy Alabady; Lin Jiang; Will Rogers; et al. The Plant Genome 2026. doi:10.1002/tpg2.70221
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Method / resource The chromosome-scale Sarracenia assembly is 3.41 Gbp and the largest sequenced carnivorous genome.
- Method / resource The assembly has N50 over 220 Mbp, L50 of 7 and maximum contig over 281.4 Mbp.
- Method / resource The assembly contains 52,067 gene models, 96% supported by mRNA evidence.
- Observation The genome shows paleopolyploidization around 81–84 Mya.
- Observation WGD expanded about 33 gene families across seven pathways.
- Mechanism Seven pathway networks appear to underpin defense, stress response and carnivory.
- Observation Comparative analysis identified orthogroups potentially involved in carnivory evolution.