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Table 3 Nuclear candidate copies of missing mitochondrial genes in Cuscuta australis and C. campestris

From: Mitochondrial genomes of two parasitic Cuscuta species lack clear evidence of horizontal gene transfer and retain unusually fragmented ccmFC genes

Mitochondrial gene

Nuclear copy length (bp)

Reference average length (bp)

Putative origin

rps2

618

978

vertical; nuclear copy or UTP--glucose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase

rps10

387

354

unclear; possible HGT

rps11

432

486

vertical; nuclear copy

rps14

321

295

vertical; nuclear copy

rps19

273

286

unclear; possible HGT

sdh3

321, 324

343

vertical; nuclear copy

sdh4

288

418

unclear; possible HGT

  1. Table showing the nuclear candidate copies, including the lengths of reference mitochondrial genes. The putative origin is based on phylogenetic analysis of top NCBI BLASTN hits together with reference mitogenomes