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

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Todd J Barkman^*, Joel R McNeal, Seok-Hong Lim, Gwen Coat, Henrietta B Croom, Nelson D Young and Claude W dePamphilis^*

* Corresponding authors: Todd J Barkman todd.barkman@wmich.edu - Claude W dePamphilis cwd3@psu.edu

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