Understanding the evolution of holoparasitic plants: the complete plastid genome of the holoparasite Cytinus hypocistis (Cytinaceae).

ABSTRACT: Background and Aims Plant plastid genomes are highly conserved in size, gene content and structure; however, parasitic plants are a noticeable exception to this evolutionary stability. Although the evolution of parasites could help to better understand plastome evolution in general, complete plastomes of parasites have been sequenced only for some lineages so far. Here we contribute to filling this gap by providing and analysing the complete plastome sequence of Cytinus hypocistis, the first parasite sequenced for Malvales and a species suspected to have an extremely small genome. Methods We sequenced and assembled de novo the plastid genome of Cytinus hypocistis using a shotgun approach on genomic DNA. Phylogenomic analyses based on coding regions were performed on Malvidae. For each codi

SUBMITTER: Roquet C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5055816 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature