title: Grand-scale theft: kleptoplasty in parasitic plants?
abstract: The angiosperm Rafflesia lives as an obligate holoparasite in intimate contact with its hosts, vines in the genus Tetrastigma. The hosts are forced to supply the parasite with all the necessary nutrients. Novel data tentatively suggest that the thievery may happen on a larger scale and include entire organellar genomes.
authors: Department for Arctic and Marine Biology, UiT/The Arctic University of Norway, Dramsvegen 201, N-9037 Tromsø, Norway. Electronic address: kirsten.krause@uit.no.
authors: Kirsten
authors: K
authors: Krause
mesh_terms: D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D018745:Genome, Plant; D019684:Magnoliopsida / Q000235:genetics / Q000469:parasitology* / Q000502:physiology*; D018087:Plastids / Q000235:genetics*; D027844:Vitaceae / Q000469:parasitology
keywords: Rafflesia; kleptoplasty; parasitic plants; plastid genome evolution; plastid genome loss