Thirteen New Plastid Genomes from Mixotrophic and Autotrophic Species Provide Insights into Heterotrophy Evolution in Neottieae Orchids

Genome Reports: Contracted Genes and Dwarfed Plastome in Mycoheterotrophic Sciaphila thaidanica (Triuridaceae, Pandanales)

(2018) Gitte Petersen et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Mixotrophy in Land Plants: Why To Stay Green?

(2018) Jakub Tĕšitel et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Molecular systematics and the evolution of mycoheterotrophy of tribe Neottieae (Orchidaceae, Epidendroideae)

(2018) Ting Zhou et al.   PhytoKeys

The 13C content of the orchid Epipactis palustris (L.) Crantz responds to light as in autotrophic plants

(2018) Félix Lallemand et al.   Botany Letters

Partial mycoheterotrophy in the leafless orchid Cymbidium macrorhizon

(2018) Kenji Suetsugu et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Mixotrophic orchids do not use photosynthates for perennial underground organs

(2018) Félix Lallemand et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Exploiting mycorrhizas in broad daylight: Partial mycoheterotrophy is a common nutritional strategy in meadow orchids

(2017) Julienne M.-I. Schiebold et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

ModelFinder: fast model selection for accurate phylogenetic estimates

(2017) Subha Kalyaanamoorthy et al.   NATURE METHODS

Plastomes on the edge: the evolutionary breakdown of mycoheterotroph plastid genomes

(2017) Sean W. Graham et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Concomitant loss of NDH complex-related genes within chloroplast and nuclear genomes in some orchids

(2017) Choun-Sea Lin et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Sequencing of the plastome in the leafless green mycoheterotroph Cymbidium macrorhizon helps us to understand an early stage of fully mycoheterotrophic plastome structure

(2017) Hyoung T. Kim et al.   PLANT SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTION

Mycorrhizal Associations and Trophic Modes in Coexisting Orchids: An Ecological Continuum between Auto- and Mixotrophy

(2017) Hans Jacquemyn et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Aligning evidence: concerns regarding multiple sequence alignments in estimating the phylogeny of the Nudibranchia suborder Doridina

(2017) Joshua M. Hallas et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Fungal partner shifts during the evolution of mycoheterotrophy in Neottia

(2016) T. Yagame et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Mixotrophy everywhere on land and in water: the grand écart hypothesis

(2016) Marc-André Selosse et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Lineage-Specific Reductions of Plastid Genomes in an Orchid Tribe with Partially and Fully Mycoheterotrophic Species

(2016) Yan-Lei Feng et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

The elusive predisposition to mycoheterotrophy in Ericaceae

(2016) Félix Lallemand et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Mechanistic model of evolutionary rate variation en route to a nonphotosynthetic lifestyle in plants

(2016) Susann Wicke et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

DECIPHER: harnessing local sequence context to improve protein multiple sequence alignment

(2015) Erik S. Wright   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Plastome Evolution in Hemiparasitic Mistletoes

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

Two widespread greenNeottiaspecies (Orchidaceae) show mycorrhizal preference for Sebacinales in various habitats and ontogenetic stages

(2015) Tamara Těšitelová et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Isotopic evidence of partial mycoheterotrophy inBurmannia coelestis(Burmanniaceae)

(2015) Jay F. Bolin et al.   PLANT SPECIES BIOLOGY

Current Methods for Automated Filtering of Multiple Sequence Alignments Frequently Worsen Single-Gene Phylogenetic Inference

(2015) Ge Tan et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Seven New Complete Plastome Sequences Reveal Rampant Independent Loss of the ndh Gene Family across Orchids and Associated Instability of the Inverted Repeat/Small Single-Copy Region Boundaries

(2015) Hyoung Tae Kim et al.   PLoS One

The evolution of floral deception in Epipactis veratrifolia (Orchidaceae): from indirect defense to pollination

(2014) Xiao-Hua Jin et al.   BMC PLANT BIOLOGY

Two Distinct Plastid Genome Configurations and Unprecedented Intraspecies Length Variation in the accD Coding Region in Medicago truncatula

(2014) C. Gurdon et al.   DNA RESEARCH

Photosynthesis in perennial mixotrophicEpipactisspp. (Orchidaceae) contributes more to shoot and fruit biomass than to hypogeous survival

(2014) Cédric Gonneau et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

RELAX: Detecting Relaxed Selection in a Phylogenetic Framework

(2014) Joel O. Wertheim et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

IQ-TREE: A Fast and Effective Stochastic Algorithm for Estimating Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies

(2014) Lam-Tung Nguyen et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Nutritional regulation in mixotrophic plants: new insights from Limodorum abortivum

(2014) Alessandro Bellino et al.   OECOLOGIA

Comparative Chloroplast Genomes of Photosynthetic Orchids: Insights into Evolution of the Orchidaceae and Development of Molecular Markers for Phylogenetic Applications

(2014) Jing Luo et al.   PLoS One

Analysis of plastid and nuclear DNA data in plant phylogenetics—evaluation and improvement

(2014) Wei Wang et al.   Science China-Life Sciences

Do chlorophyllous orchids heterotrophically use mycorrhizal fungal carbon?

(2014) Marc-André Selosse et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Why do mixotrophic plants stay green? A comparison between green and achlorophyllous orchid individuals in situ

(2013) M. Roy et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

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

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

Symbiotic germination capability of four Epipactis species (Orchidaceae) is broader than expected from adult ecology

(2012) T. Tesitelova et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data

(2012) M. Kearse et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference and Model Choice Across a Large Model Space

(2012) Fredrik Ronquist et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Phylogenetic Insights on Adaptive Radiation

(2010) Richard E. Glor   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Phylogenetic relationships within Orchidaceae based on a low-copy nuclear coding gene, Xdh: Congruence with organellar and nuclear ribosomal DNA results

(2010) Marcin Górniak et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Two mycoheterotrophic orchids from Thailand tropical dipterocarpacean forests associate with a broad diversity of ectomycorrhizal fungi

(2009) Mélanie Roy et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Green plants that feed on fungi: facts and questions about mixotrophy

(2009) Marc-André Selosse et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE