Publication Date:
2013-12-21
Description:
We report the complete mitochondrial genome sequence of the flowering plant Amborella trichopoda. This enormous, 3.9-megabase genome contains six genome equivalents of foreign mitochondrial DNA, acquired from green algae, mosses, and other angiosperms. Many of these horizontal transfers were large, including acquisition of entire mitochondrial genomes from three green algae and one moss. We propose a fusion-compatibility model to explain these findings, with Amborella capturing whole mitochondria from diverse eukaryotes, followed by mitochondrial fusion (limited mechanistically to green plant mitochondria) and then genome recombination. Amborella's epiphyte load, propensity to produce suckers from wounds, and low rate of mitochondrial DNA loss probably all contribute to the high level of foreign DNA in its mitochondrial genome.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Rice, Danny W -- Alverson, Andrew J -- Richardson, Aaron O -- Young, Gregory J -- Sanchez-Puerta, M Virginia -- Munzinger, Jerome -- Barry, Kerrie -- Boore, Jeffrey L -- Zhang, Yan -- dePamphilis, Claude W -- Knox, Eric B -- Palmer, Jeffrey D -- R01-GM-76012/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2013 Dec 20;342(6165):1468-73. doi: 10.1126/science.1246275.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24357311" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Base Sequence
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Bryophyta/classification/genetics
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Chlorophyta/classification/genetics
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DNA, Mitochondrial/*genetics
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*Gene Transfer, Horizontal
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*Genome, Plant
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Membrane Fusion
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*Mitochondrial Dynamics
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Phylogeny
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Tracheobionta/classification/*genetics
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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