Loss of plastid developmental genes coincides with a reversion to monoplastidy in hornworts
A. I. MacLeod, P. K. Raval, S. Stockhorst, M. Knopp, E. Frangedakis, S. B. Gould
The paper identifies the loss of ARC3 and FtsZ2 genes in hornworts as the cause of their monoplastidic phenotype through genomic and transcriptomic analysis.
bioRxiv · Jan 11, 2022Evolutionary Biology