Abstract：
:RNA editing affecting chloroplast and mitochondrial genomes has been identified in all major clades of land plants. The frequency of edited sites varies greatly between lineages but hornworts represent an extreme in propensity for editing in both their chloroplast and mitochondrial genomes. cDNA sequences from seven taxonomically diverse hornwort rbcL sequences combined with a survey of 13 additional DNA sequences for potential edited sites demonstrate the presence of 62 edited sites and predict a minimum of 10 additional sites. These 72 total edited sites represent 43 C-to-U and 28 U-to-C nucleotide conversions, with 1 site exhibiting editing in both directions. With one exception, all taxa are heavily edited, with each having from 20 to 34 edited sites. However, a single sample, Leiosporoceros, is shown to lack edited sites. Phylogenetic reconstruction of hornworts results in ambiguous resolution of Leiosporoceros depending on whether edited sites are maintained or eliminated from the analyses. Depending on the inferred relationship of Leiosporoceros to the hornworts, at least two explanations for the origin and maintenance of pervasive editing in hornworts are possible. The absence of edited sites in Leiosporoceros could represent either the absence or a low level of editing ability in the common ancestor of hornworts, as represented by Leiosporoceros, or the loss of editing sites in this lineage after the primary diversification events in the group.
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J Mol Evoljournal_title
Journal of molecular evolutionauthors
Duff RJ,Moore FBdoi
10.1007/s00239-004-0146-0keywords:
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Has Abstractpub_date
2005-11-01 00:00:00pages
571-8issue
5eissn
0022-2844issn
1432-1432journal_volume
61pub_type
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