Proposal of a Twin Aarginine Translocator System-Mediated Constraint against Loss of ATP Synthase Genes from Nonphotosynthetic Plastid Genomes

Plastid Genome-Based Phylogeny Pinpointed the Origin of the Green-Colored Plastid in the Dinoflagellate Lepidodinium chlorophorum

(2015) Ryoma Kamikawa et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

The Plastid Genome of Mycoheterotrophic Monocot Petrosavia stellaris Exhibits Both Gene Losses and Multiple Rearrangements

(2014) Maria D. Logacheva et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Serial Gene Losses and Foreign DNA Underlie Size and Sequence Variation in the Plastid Genomes of Diatoms

(2014) Elizabeth C. Ruck et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Investigating the Path of Plastid Genome Degradation in an Early-Transitional Clade of Heterotrophic Orchids, and Implications for Heterotrophic Angiosperms

(2014) Craig F. Barrett et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Possible Loss of the Chloroplast Genome in the Parasitic Flowering Plant Rafflesia lagascae (Rafflesiaceae)

(2014) Jeanmaire Molina et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Multiple losses of photosynthesis inNitzschia(Bacillariophyceae)

(2014) Ryoma Kamikawa et al.   PHYCOLOGICAL RESEARCH

A Plastid without a Genome: Evidence from the Nonphotosynthetic Green Algal Genus Polytomella

(2014) D. R. Smith et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Is ftsH the Key to Plastid Longevity in Sacoglossan Slugs?

(2013) Jan de Vries et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Mechanisms of Functional and Physical Genome Reduction in Photosynthetic and Nonphotosynthetic Parasitic Plants of the Broomrape Family

(2013) S. Wicke et al.   PLANT CELL

The plastid genome of the mycoheterotrophic Corallorhiza striata (Orchidaceae) is in the relatively early stages of degradation

(2012) Craig F. Barrett et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Thioredoxin-insensitive plastid ATP synthase that performs moonlighting functions

(2012) K. Kohzuma et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Parasitic Plant Genome Project: New Tools for Understanding the Biology of Orobanche and Striga

(2012) James H. Westwood et al.   WEED SCIENCE

Transcriptomes of the Parasitic Plant Family Orobanchaceae Reveal Surprising Conservation of Chlorophyll Synthesis

(2011) Norman J. Wickett et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Sequencing and Analysis of Plastid Genome in Mycoheterotrophic Orchid Neottia nidus-avis

(2011) Maria D. Logacheva et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Rampant Gene Loss in the Underground Orchid Rhizanthella gardneri Highlights Evolutionary Constraints on Plastid Genomes

(2011) E. Delannoy et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Rethinking plastid evolution

(2010) Michael W Gray   EMBO REPORTS

The endosymbiotic origin, diversification and fate of plastids

(2010) P. J. Keeling   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The Puzzle of Plastid Evolution

(2009) John M. Archibald   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The Complete Plastid Genome Sequence of the Secondarily Nonphotosynthetic Alga Cryptomonas paramecium: Reduction, Compaction, and Accelerated Evolutionary Rate

(2009) Natalie Donaher et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Diatom plastids depend on nucleotide import from the cytosol

(2009) M. Ast et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

From chloroplasts to “cryptic” plastids: evolution of plastid genomes in parasitic plants

(2008) Kirsten Krause   CURRENT GENETICS

ARIADNE’S THREAD: GUIDING A PROTEIN ACROSS FIVE MEMBRANES IN CRYPTOPHYTES

(2008) Sven B. Gould   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

An Improved General Amino Acid Replacement Matrix

(2008) S. Q. Le et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Functional Gene Losses Occur with Minimal Size Reduction in the Plastid Genome of the Parasitic Liverwort Aneura mirabilis

(2007) N. J. Wickett et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION