Online supplementary material from the doctoral thesis of Yuxing Xu in Kunming Institute of Botany

Dodders (<i>Cuscuta</i> spp., Convolvulaceae) are root- and leafless parasitic plants that parasitize a wide range of hosts. <i>C. australis</i> genome harbors only 19671 protein-coding genes, and 11.7% of the conserved orthologs in autotrophic plants are lost in <i>C. australis</i>. Many of these gene loss events likely result from its parasitic lifestyle and large body plan changes. This dataset is online supplementary material from the doctoral thesis of Yuxing Xu in Kunming Institute of Botany.