Piecing together the puzzle of parasitic plant plastome evolution

The apicomplexan plastid and its evolution

(2011) Shigeharu Sato   CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES

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

Chloroplast genomes of photosynthetic eukaryotes

(2011) Beverley R. Green   PLANT JOURNAL

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

Extreme Reconfiguration of Plastid Genomes in the Angiosperm Family Geraniaceae: Rearrangements, Repeats, and Codon Usage

(2010) M. M. Guisinger et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Recombination and the maintenance of plant organelle genome stability

(2010) Alexandre Maréchal et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The evolution of chloroplast genes and genomes in ferns

(2010) Paul G. Wolf et al.   PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Plastid ndh genes in plant evolution

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

An organellar maturase associates with multiple group II introns

(2010) R. Zoschke et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The evolution of parasitism in plants

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

The Puzzle of Plastid Evolution

(2009) John M. Archibald   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Mycorrhizal associations and other means of nutrition of vascular plants: understanding the global diversity of host plants by resolving conflicting information and developing reliable means of diagnosis

(2009) Mark C. Brundrett   PLANT AND SOIL

Parallel Loss of Plastid Introns and Their Maturase in the Genus Cuscuta

(2009) Joel R. McNeal et al.   PLoS One

Whirly proteins maintain plastid genome stability in Arabidopsis

(2009) A. Marechal et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Complex chloroplast RNA metabolism: just debugging the genetic programme?

(2008) Uwe G Maier et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

The complete plastid genome sequence of Welwitschia mirabilis: an unusually compact plastome with accelerated divergence rates

(2008) Skip R McCoy et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Gene rearrangement analysis and ancestral order inference from chloroplast genomes with inverted repeat

(2008) Feng Yue et al.   BMC GENOMICS

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

(2008) Kirsten Krause   CURRENT GENETICS

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

Extensive Reorganization of the Plastid Genome of Trifolium subterraneum (Fabaceae) Is Associated with Numerous Repeated Sequences and Novel DNA Insertions

(2008) Zhengqiu Cai et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

The Complete Nucleotide Sequences of the 5 Genetically Distinct Plastid Genomes of Oenothera, Subsection Oenothera: II. A Microevolutionary View Using Bioinformatics and Formal Genetic Data

(2008) S. Greiner et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Substitution of the Gene for Chloroplast RPS16 Was Assisted by Generation of a Dual Targeting Signal

(2008) M. Ueda et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Complete plastid genome sequence of the chickpea (Cicer arietinum) and the phylogenetic distribution of rps12 and clpP intron losses among legumes (Leguminosae)

(2008) Robert K. Jansen et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Genome-wide analyses of Geraniaceae plastid DNA reveal unprecedented patterns of increased nucleotide substitutions

(2008) M. M. Guisinger et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The complete nucleotide sequence of the cassava (Manihot esculenta) chloroplast genome and the evolution of atpF in Malpighiales: RNA editing and multiple losses of a group II intron

(2008) Henry Daniell et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS

The eukaryotic tree of life: endosymbiosis takes its TOL

(2008) Christopher E. Lane et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & 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