Horizontal Transfer of Entire Genomes via Mitochondrial Fusion in the Angiosperm Amborella

We report the complete mitochondrial genome sequence of the flowering plant Amborella trichopoda. This enormous, 3.9-megabase genome contains six genome equivalents of foreign mitochondrial DNA, acquired from green algae, mosses, and other angiosperms. Many of these horizontal transfers were large, ... View More