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2017

Center for Plant Science Innovation: Faculty and Staff Publications

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Complete Mitochondrial Genomes From The Ferns Ophioglossum Californicum And Psilotum Nudum Are Highly Repetitive With The Largest Organellar Introns, Wenhu Guo, Andan Zhu, Weishu Fan, Jeffrey P. Mower Jan 2017

Complete Mitochondrial Genomes From The Ferns Ophioglossum Californicum And Psilotum Nudum Are Highly Repetitive With The Largest Organellar Introns, Wenhu Guo, Andan Zhu, Weishu Fan, Jeffrey P. Mower

Center for Plant Science Innovation: Faculty and Staff Publications

  • Currently, complete mitochondrial genomes (mitogenomes) are available from all major land plant lineages except ferns. Sequencing of fern mitogenomes could shed light on the major evolutionary transitions that established mitogenomic diversity among extant lineages.

  • In this study, we generated complete mitogenomes from the adder’s tongue fern (Ophioglossum californicum) and the whisk fern (Psilotum nudum).

  • The Psilotum mitogenome (628 kb) contains a rich complement of genes and introns, some of which are the largest of any green plant organellar genome. In the Ophioglossum mitogenome (372 kb), gene and intron content is slightly reduced, including the loss of …