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

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

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

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

Nutritional regulation in mixotrophic plants: new insights from Limodorum abortivum

(2014) Alessandro Bellino et al.   OECOLOGIA

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

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

GC content evolution in coding regions of angiosperm genomes: a unifying hypothesis

(2014) Sylvain Glémin et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Phylogeny and origins of holoparasitism in Orobanchaceae

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

Complete chloroplast genome of the genus Cymbidium: lights into the species identification, phylogenetic implications and population genetic analyses

(2013) Jun-Bo Yang et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Horizontal Transfer of DNA from the Mitochondrial to the Plastid Genome and Its Subsequent Evolution in Milkweeds (Apocynaceae)

(2013) Shannon C.K. Straub et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

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

MEGA6: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 6.0

(2013) Koichiro Tamura et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The genomes of four tapeworm species reveal adaptations to parasitism

(2013) Isheng J. Tsai et al.   NATURE

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 Najas flexilis: Adaptation to Submersed Environments Is Accompanied by the Complete Loss of the NDH Complex in an Aquatic Angiosperm

(2013) Elena L. Peredo 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

Plastid genomes and deep relationships among the commelinid monocot angiosperms

(2012) Craig F. Barrett et al.   CLADISTICS

Plastid genome evolution in mycoheterotrophic Ericaceae

(2012) Thomas Braukmann et al.   PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

NGS QC Toolkit: A Toolkit for Quality Control of Next Generation Sequencing Data

(2012) Ravi K. Patel et al.   PLoS One

A Complete Sequence and Transcriptomic Analyses of Date Palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) Mitochondrial Genome

(2012) Yongjun Fang et al.   PLoS One

A Systematically Improved High Quality Genome and Transcriptome of the Human Blood Fluke Schistosoma mansoni

(2012) Anna V. Protasio et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Building a model: developing genomic resources for common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) with low coverage genome sequencing

(2011) Shannon CK Straub et al.   BMC GENOMICS

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

The transcription machineries of plant mitochondria and chloroplasts: Composition, function, and regulation

(2011) Karsten Liere et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

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

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

Recent loss of plastid-encoded ndh genes within Erodium (Geraniaceae)

(2011) J. Chris Blazier et al.   PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

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

(2011) Susann Wicke et al.   PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

MACSE: Multiple Alignment of Coding SEquences Accounting for Frameshifts and Stop Codons

(2011) Vincent Ranwez et al.   PLoS One

A structural phylogenetic map for chloroplast photosynthesis

(2011) John F. Allen et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Roles of PsbI and PsbM in photosystem II dimer formation and stability studied by deletion mutagenesis and X-ray crystallography

(2010) Keisuke Kawakami et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Complete chloroplast genome of Oncidium Gower Ramsey and evaluation of molecular markers for identification and breeding in Oncidiinae

(2010) Fu-Hui Wu et al.   BMC PLANT BIOLOGY

SequenceMatrix: concatenation software for the fast assembly of multi-gene datasets with character set and codon information

(2010) Gaurav Vaidya et al.   CLADISTICS

Physiological ecology of mycoheterotrophy

(2010) Jonathan R. Leake et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Evolution of mycoheterotrophy in plants: a phylogenetic perspective

(2010) Vincent Merckx et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Plastid ndh genes in plant evolution

(2010) Mercedes Martín et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY

The evolution of parasitism in plants

(2010) James H. Westwood et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Functional characterization of the thylakoid Ndh complex phosphorylation by site-directed mutations in the ndhF gene

(2009) Mercedes Martín et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Loss of all plastid ndh genes in Gnetales and conifers: extent and evolutionary significance for the seed plant phylogeny

(2009) Thomas Werner Anthony Braukmann et al.   CURRENT GENETICS

The chlorophyll-containing orchid Corallorhiza trifida derives little carbon through photosynthesis

(2009) Duncan D. Cameron et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Relationships and evolution of matK in a group of leafless orchids (Corallorhiza and Corallorhizinae; Orchidaceae: Epidendroideae)

(2008) John V. Freudenstein et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

GenomeVx: simple web-based creation of editable circular chromosome maps

(2008) G. C. Conant et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

TNT, a free program for phylogenetic analysis

(2008) Pablo A. Goloboff et al.   CLADISTICS

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

(2008) Kirsten Krause   CURRENT GENETICS

Velvet: Algorithms for de novo short read assembly using de Bruijn graphs

(2008) D. R. Zerbino et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Molecular evolution of rbcL in the mycoheterotrophic coralroot orchids (Corallorhiza Gagnebin, Orchidaceae)

(2008) Craig F. Barrett et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

The ectomycorrhizal specialist orchid Corallorhiza trifida is a partial myco-heterotroph

(2008) Katja Zimmer et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST