Background Carnivorous plants are an ecological group of approx. 810 vascular species
which capture and digest animal prey, absorb prey-derived nutrients and utilize them to …

The genus Utricularia includes around 250 species of carnivorous plants, commonly known
as bladderworts. The generic name Utricularia was coined by Carolus Linnaeus in reference …

Ferns are notorious for possessing large genomes and numerous chromosomes. Despite
decades of speculation, the processes underlying the expansive genomes of ferns are …

Carnivorous plants exploit animals as a nutritional source and have inspired long-standing
questions about the origin and evolution of carnivory-related traits. To investigate the …

Utricularia gibba, the humped bladderwort, is a carnivorous plant that retains a tiny nuclear
genome despite at least two rounds of whole genome duplication (WGD) since common …

Although the concept of botanical carnivory has been known since Darwin's time, the
molecular mechanisms that allow animal feeding remain unknown, primarily due to a …

Although gene loss is common in evolution, it remains unclear whether it is an adaptive
process. In a survey of seven major mangrove clades that are woody plants in the intertidal …

Background To illustrate the molecular mechanism of mycoheterotrophic interactions
between orchids and fungi, we assembled chromosome-level reference genome of …

Gene duplication and loss contribute to gene content differences as well as phenotypic
divergence across species. However, the extent to which gene content varies among closely …

The birth-and-death evolutionary model proposes that some members of a multigene family
are phylogenetically stable and persist as a single copy over time, whereas other members …