1. Assembly and Validation of the Genome of the Nonmodel Basal Angiosperm Amborella
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W. Brad Barbazuk, André S. Chanderbali, Joshua P. Der, Claude W. dePamphilis, Stephan C. Schuster, Nianqing Xiao, Rod A. Wing, Douglas E. Soltis, Jim Leebens-Mack, Richard C. Moore, Srikar Chamala, Tianying Lan, Victor A. Albert, Pamela S. Soltis, Steve Rounsley, and Brandon Walts
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Genetics ,Whole genome sequencing ,Multidisciplinary ,Sequence analysis ,Amborella trichopoda ,Sequence assembly ,Flowering plant ,Computational biology ,Biology ,biology.organism_classification ,Genome ,DNA sequencing ,Sequence (medicine) - Abstract
Shaping Plant Evolution Amborella trichopoda is understood to be the most basal extant flowering plant and its genome is anticipated to provide insights into the evolution of plant life on Earth (see the Perspective by Adams ). To validate and assemble the sequence, Chamala et al. (p. 1516 ) combined fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH), genomic mapping, and next-generation sequencing. The Amborella Genome Project (p. 10.1126/science.1241089 ) was able to infer that a whole-genome duplication event preceded the evolution of this ancestral angiosperm, and Rice et al. (p. 1468 ) found that numerous genes in the mitochondrion were acquired by horizontal gene transfer from other plants, including almost four entire mitochondrial genomes from mosses and algae.
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- 2013