Massive intracellular gene transfer during plastid genome reduction in nongreen Orobanchaceae

Plastome Evolution in Hemiparasitic Mistletoes

(2015) Gitte Petersen et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

The Highly Reduced Plastome of MycoheterotrophicSciaphila(Triuridaceae) Is Colinear with Its Green Relatives and Is under Strong Purifying Selection

(2015) Vivienne K.Y. Lam et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Exploring the Limits for Reduction of Plastid Genomes: A Case Study of the Mycoheterotrophic Orchids Epipogium aphyllum and Epipogium roseum

(2015) Mikhail I. Schelkunov et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

The influence of taxon sampling on Bayesian divergence time inference under scenarios of rate heterogeneity among lineages

(2015) André E.R. Soares et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

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

(2015) Ryoma Kamikawa et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Transposable elements in a clade of three tetraploids and a diploid relative, focusing on Gypsy amplification

(2015) Mathieu Piednoël et al.   Mobile DNA

RAxML version 8: a tool for phylogenetic analysis and post-analysis of large phylogenies

(2014) Alexandros Stamatakis   BIOINFORMATICS

From algae to angiosperms–inferring the phylogeny of green plants (Viridiplantae) from 360 plastid genomes

(2014) Brad R Ruhfel et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

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

Ancient Nuclear Plastid DNA in the Yew Family (Taxaceae)

(2014) C.-Y. Hsu 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

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

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

BEAST 2: A Software Platform for Bayesian Evolutionary Analysis

(2014) Remco Bouckaert et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Phylogeny and origins of holoparasitism in Orobanchaceae

(2013) J. R. McNeal et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Evolution of a horizontally acquired legume gene, albumin 1, in the parasitic plant Phelipanche aegyptiaca and related species

(2013) Yeting Zhang et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Plastid genome evolution across the genus Cuscuta (Convolvulaceae): two clades within subgenus Grammica exhibit extensive gene loss

(2013) Thomas Braukmann et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Disproportional Plastome-Wide Increase of Substitution Rates and Relaxed Purifying Selection in Genes of Carnivorous Lentibulariaceae

(2013) Susann Wicke et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

MAFFT Multiple Sequence Alignment Software Version 7: Improvements in Performance and Usability

(2013) K. Katoh et al.   MOLECULAR 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 Complete Chloroplast Genome Sequence of the Medicinal Plant Salvia miltiorrhiza

(2013) Jun Qian et al.   PLoS One

Complete Chloroplast Genome Sequence of Holoparasite Cistanche deserticola (Orobanchaceae) Reveals Gene Loss and Horizontal Gene Transfer from Its Host Haloxylon ammodendron (Chenopodiaceae)

(2013) Xi Li et al.   PLoS One

Single-Copy Nuclear Genes Place Haustorial Hydnoraceae within Piperales and Reveal a Cretaceous Origin of Multiple Parasitic Angiosperm Lineages

(2013) Julia Naumann et al.   PLoS One

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

Horizontal transfer of expressed genes in a parasitic flowering plant

(2012) Zhenxiang Xi et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Plastid genome evolution in mycoheterotrophic Ericaceae

(2012) Thomas Braukmann et al.   PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Complete Chloroplast Genome Sequences of Important Oilseed Crop Sesamum indicum L

(2012) Dong-Keun Yi et al.   PLoS One

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

A Random Effects Branch-Site Model for Detecting Episodic Diversifying Selection

(2011) Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Movement of protein and macromolecules between host plants and the parasitic weed Phelipanche aegyptiaca Pers.

(2011) Radi Aly et al.   PLANT CELL REPORTS

The evolution of the plastid chromosome in land plants: gene content, gene order, gene function

(2011) Susann Wicke et al.   PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Conservation of Plastid Sequences in the Plant Nuclear Genome for Millions of Years Facilitates Endosymbiotic Evolution

(2011) M. Rousseau-Gueutin et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

The age and diversification of the angiosperms re-revisited

(2010) Charles D. Bell et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

A Phylogenetic Model for Investigating Correlated Evolution of Substitution Rates and Continuous Phenotypic Characters

(2010) N. Lartillot et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

progressiveMauve: Multiple Genome Alignment with Gene Gain, Loss and Rearrangement

(2010) Aaron E. Darling et al.   PLoS One

Phylogenetic analysis of 83 plastid genes further resolves the early diversification of eudicots

(2010) M. J. Moore et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Horizontal Gene Transfer by the Parasitic Plant Striga hermonthica

(2010) S. Yoshida et al.   SCIENCE

PhyloBayes 3: a Bayesian software package for phylogenetic reconstruction and molecular dating

(2009) Nicolas Lartillot et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Reconstructing evolution: Gene transfer from plastids to the nucleus

(2008) Ralph Bock et al.   BIOESSAYS

Distribution and Evolution of Pseudogenes, Gene Losses, and a Gene Rearrangement in the Plastid Genome of the Nonphotosynthetic Liverwort, Aneura mirabilis (Metzgeriales, Jungermanniopsida)

(2008) Norman J. Wickett et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR 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