Evolutionary Comparisons of the Chloroplast Genome in Lauraceae and Insights into Loss Events in the Magnoliids

An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG IV

(2016)   BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Complete chloroplast genome sequence of the avocado: gene organization, comparative analysis, and phylogenetic relationships with other Lauraceae

(2016) Yu Song et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Plastid Phylogenomic Analyses Resolve Tofieldiaceae as the Root of the Early Diverging Monocot Order Alismatales

(2016) Yang Luo et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Detecting and Characterizing the Highly Divergent Plastid Genome of the Nonphotosynthetic Parasitic PlantHydnora visseri(Hydnoraceae)

(2016) Julia Naumann et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Phylogenomic and structural analyses of 18 complete plastomes across nearly all families of early-diverging eudicots, including an angiosperm-wide analysis of IR gene content evolution

(2016) Yanxia Sun et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

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

Exceptional reduction of the plastid genome of saguaro cactus (Carnegiea gigantea): Loss of the ndh gene suite and inverted repeat

(2015) M. J. Sanderson et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Bandage: interactive visualization ofde novogenome assemblies: Fig. 1.

(2015) Ryan R. Wick et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Evolutionary dynamics of the plastid inverted repeat: the effects of expansion, contraction, and loss on substitution rates

(2015) Andan Zhu et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

GSDS 2.0: an upgraded gene feature visualization server

(2014) Bo Hu et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

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

Central role of cyclic electron transport around photosystem I in the regulation of photosynthesis

(2013) Toshiharu Shikanai   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

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

MAFFT Multiple Sequence Alignment Software Version 7: Improvements in Performance and Usability

(2013) K. Katoh et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Complete Plastid Genome Sequencing of Trochodendraceae Reveals a Significant Expansion of the Inverted Repeat and Suggests a Paleogene Divergence between the Two Extant Species

(2013) Yan-xia Sun et al.   PLoS One

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

(2012) M. Kearse et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

CpGAVAS, an integrated web server for the annotation, visualization, analysis, and GenBank submission of completely sequenced chloroplast genome sequences

(2012) Chang Liu et al.   BMC GENOMICS

SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing

(2012) Anton Bankevich et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY

jModelTest 2: more models, new heuristics and parallel computing

(2012) Diego Darriba et al.   NATURE METHODS

Frequent pseudogenization and loss of the plastid-encoded sulfate-transport gene cys A throughout the evolution of liverworts

(2011) Norman J. Wickett et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

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

MEGA5: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Using Maximum Likelihood, Evolutionary Distance, and Maximum Parsimony Methods

(2011) K. Tamura et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

High-Throughput Sequencing of Three Lemnoideae (Duckweeds) Chloroplast Genomes from Total DNA

(2011) Wenqin Wang et al.   PLoS One

Complete plastome sequences of Equisetum arvense and Isoetes flaccida: implications for phylogeny and plastid genome evolution of early land plant lineages

(2010) Kenneth G Karol et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Implications of the Plastid Genome Sequence of Typha (Typhaceae, Poales) for Understanding Genome Evolution in Poaceae

(2010) Mary M. Guisinger et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

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

Plastid genome sequencing, comparative genomics, and phylogenomics: Current status and prospects

(2010) Lei GAO et al.   Journal of Systematics and Evolution

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

Evolution of reduced and compact chloroplast genomes (cpDNAs) in gnetophytes: Selection toward a lower-cost strategy

(2009) Chung-Shien Wu et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

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

Dynamics and evolution of the inverted repeat-large single copy junctions in the chloroplast genomes of monocots

(2008) Rui-Jiang Wang et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

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

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

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