BMC Evolutionary Biology

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Mitochondrial DNA suggests at least 11 origins of parasitism in angiosperms and reveals genomic chimerism in parasitic plants

Todd J Barkman1*, Joel R McNeal2,3, Seok-Hong Lim1, Gwen Coat2, Henrietta B Croom4, Nelson D Young2,5 and Claude W dePamphilis2*

Author Affiliations

1 Department of Biological Sciences, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, 49008, USA

2 Department of Biology and Institute of Molecular Evolutionary Genetics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA

3 Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA

4 Department of Biology, University of the South, Sewanee, TN 37383, USA

5 Department of Microbiology, 442F Morrill IVN, U Mass Amherst, Amherst, MA 01536, USA

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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2007, 7:248 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-7-248

Published: 21 December 2007

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