The complete chloroplast genome of parasitic flowering plant Monotropa hypopitys: extensive gene losses and size reduction

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 Plastid Genome of Mycoheterotrophic Monocot Petrosavia stellaris Exhibits Both Gene Losses and Multiple Rearrangements

(2014) Maria D. Logacheva 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

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

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

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

(2011) Susann Wicke et al.   PLANT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Evolution of mycoheterotrophy in plants: a phylogenetic perspective

(2010) Vincent Merckx et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

New Algorithms and Methods to Estimate Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies: Assessing the Performance of PhyML 3.0

(2010) Stéphane Guindon et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

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