Cytonuclear evolution in fully heterotrophic plants: lifestyles and gene function determine scenarios

X Guo, H Wang, D Lin, Y Wang, X ** - BMC Plant Biology, 2024 - Springer
Background Evidence shows that full mycoheterotrophs and holoparasites often have
reduced plastid genomes with rampant gene loss, elevated substitution rates, and deeply …

The first mitogenome of the subfamily Stenoponiinae (Siphonaptera: Ctenophthalmidae) and implications for its phylogenetic position

X Lin, J Pu, W Dong - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Fleas are the most important insect vectors that parasitize warm-blooded animals and are
known vectors of zoonotic pathogens. A recent study showed that Stenoponia polyspina …

The first mitogenome of the genus Amphalius (Siphonaptera: Ceratophyllidae) and its phylogenetic implications

J Pu, X Lin, W Dong - Parasitology, 2024 - cambridge.org
Amphalius spirataenius belongs to Arthropoda, Insecta, Siphonaptera, Ceratophylloidea,
Ceratophyllinae, Amphalius. Only 2 species from the subfamily Ceratophyllinae have been …

Strong mitonuclear discordance in the phylogeny of Neodermata and evolutionary rates of Polyopisthocotylea

D Zhang, I Jakovlić, H Zou, F Liu, CY **ang… - International Journal for …, 2024 - Elsevier
The genomic evolution of Polyopisthocotylea remains poorly understood in comparison to
the remaining three classes of Neodermata: Monopisthocotylea, Cestoda, and Trematoda …

Complete mitochondrial genome and phylogenetic analysis of Dollfustrema vaneyi (Trematoda: Bucephalidae)

Y Hu, T Ye, H Zou, GT Wang, WX Li, D Zhang - BMC genomics, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Background The Bucephalidae is a large family of digenean trematodes but most
previous analyses of its phylogenetic position have relied on a single mitochondrial gene or …

Drivers of interlineage variability in mitogenomic evolutionary rates in Platyhelminthes

I Jakovlić, T Ye, H Zou, F Zhu, Y Shi, Y Ma, GT Wang… - Heredity, 2024 - nature.com
Studies of forces driving interlineage variability in the evolutionary rates (both sequence and
architecture) of mitochondrial genomes often produce contradictory results. Flatworms …

The mitochondrial genome of Bottapotamon fukienense (Brachiura: Potamidae) is fragmented into two chromosomes

WX Cheng, J Wang, ML Mao, YB Lu, JX Zou - BMC genomics, 2024 - Springer
Background China is the hotspot of global freshwater crab diversity, but their wild
populations are facing severe pressures associated with anthropogenic factors …

[HTML][HTML] Assembly, Annotation, and Comparative Analysis of Mitochondrial Genomes in Trichoderma

X Wang, Z Wang, F Yang, R Lin, T Liu - International Journal of Molecular …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Trichoderma is a widely studied ascomycete fungal genus, including more than 400 species.
However, genetic information on Trichoderma is limited, with most species reporting only …

Geography, phylogeny and host switch drive the coevolution of parasitic Gyrodactylus flatworms and their hosts

HP Lei, I Jakovlić, S Zhou, X Liu, C Yan, X **… - Parasites & vectors, 2024 - Springer
Background Gyrodactylus is a lineage of monogenean flatworm ectoparasites exhibiting
many features that make them a suitable model to study the host-parasite coevolutionary …