Genomic Secrets of the Sister to All Flowering Plants (2 of 15) (IMAGE)

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Genomic Secrets of the Sister to All Flowering Plants (2 of 15)

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This is an Amborella flower overtop of a karyotype. Amborella genomic DNA is shown in blue, chloroplast DNA in green, and mitochondrial DNA in red. This image relates to a package of papers that appeared in the 20 Dec., 2013, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The papers, by the Amborella Genome Project, D.W. Rice at Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind., S. Chamala at University of Florida in Gainesville, Fl., and colleagues were titled, "The Amborella Genome and the Evolution of Flowering Plants," "Horizontal Transfer of Entire Genomes via Mitochondrial Fusion in the Angiosperm Amborella," and "Assembly and Validation of the Genome of the Nonmodel Basal Angiosperm Amborella," respectively.

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[Image courtesy of Sangtae Kim and Andre Chanderbali]

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