Birth of Four Chimeric Plastid Gene Clusters in Japanese Umbrella Pine

Evolution of short inverted repeat in cupressophytes, transfer of accD to nucleus in Sciadopitys verticillata and phylogenetic position of Sciadopityaceae

(2016) Jia Li et al.   Scientific Reports

Chloroplast RNA polymerases: Role in chloroplast biogenesis

(2015) Thomas Börner et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

Evolutionary Stasis in Cycad Plastomes and the First Case of Plastome GC-Biased Gene Conversion

(2015) Chung-Shien Wu et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Endosymbiotic origin and differential loss of eukaryotic genes

(2015) Chuan Ku et al.   NATURE

Complete Chloroplast Genome of the Wollemi Pine (Wollemia nobilis): Structure and Evolution

(2015) Jia-Yee S. Yap et al.   PLoS One

Predominant and Substoichiometric Isomers of the Plastid Genome Coexist within Juniperus Plants and Have Shifted Multiple Times during Cupressophyte Evolution

(2014) Wenhu Guo 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

The Complete Chloroplast Genome Sequence of Podocarpus lambertii: Genome Structure, Evolutionary Aspects, Gene Content and SSR Detection

(2014) Leila do Nascimento Vieira et al.   PLoS One

The Complete Chloroplast Genome Sequence of Cephalotaxus oliveri (Cephalotaxaceae): Evolutionary Comparison of Cephalotaxus Chloroplast DNAs and Insights into the Loss of Inverted Repeat Copies in Gymnosperms

(2013) Xuan Yi et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Highly rearranged and size-variable chloroplast genomes in conifers II clade (cupressophytes): evolution towards shorter intergenic spacers

(2013) Chung-Shien Wu et al.   PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL

Light-dependent, plastome-wide association of the plastid-encoded RNA polymerase with chloroplast DNA

(2013) Sabrina Finster et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Evolutionary constraints on the plastid tRNA set decoding methionine and isoleucine

(2012) Sibah Alkatib et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Occurrence of Sciadopitys-like fossil wood (Coniferales) in the Jurassic of western Liaoning and its evolutionary implications

(2011) ZiKun Jiang et al.   CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN

Loss of Different Inverted Repeat Copies from the Chloroplast Genomes of Pinaceae and Cupressophytes and Influence of Heterotachy on the Evaluation of Gymnosperm Phylogeny

(2011) Chung-Shien Wu et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Comparative Chloroplast Genomes of Pinaceae: Insights into the Mechanism of Diversified Genomic Organizations

(2011) Chung-Shien Wu et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Cenozoic extinctions account for the low diversity of extant gymnosperms compared with angiosperms

(2011) Michael D. Crisp et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

Circos: An information aesthetic for comparative genomics

(2009) M. Krzywinski et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Complete nucleotide sequence of the Cryptomeria japonica D. Don. chloroplast genome and comparative chloroplast genomics: diversified genomic structure of coniferous species

(2008) Tomonori Hirao et al.   BMC PLANT BIOLOGY

Inference of higher-order conifer relationships from a multi-locus plastid data setThis paper is one of a selection of papers published in the Special Issue on Systematics Research.

(2008) Hardeep S. Rai et al.   Botany

Extensive Rearrangements in the Chloroplast Genome of Trachelium caeruleum Are Associated with Repeats and tRNA Genes

(2008) Rosemarie C. Haberle 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