Parasitic plants have increased rates of molecular evolution across all three genomes

Rates of molecular evolution and diversification in plants: chloroplast substitution rates correlate with species-richness in the Proteaceae

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Functional genomics of a generalist parasitic plant: Laser microdissection of host-parasite interface reveals host-specific patterns of parasite gene expression

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Testing for Ecological Limitation of Diversification: A Case Study Using Parasitic Plants

(2012) Nate B. Hardy et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Rate heterogeneity in six protein-coding genes from the holoparasite Balanophora (Balanophoraceae) and other taxa of Santalales

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Selection on Synonymous Sites for Increased Accessibility around miRNA Binding Sites in Plants

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Interaction between Selection and Biased Gene Conversion in Mammalian Protein-Coding Sequence Evolution Revealed by a Phylogenetic Covariance Analysis

(2012) N. Lartillot   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

PartitionFinder: Combined Selection of Partitioning Schemes and Substitution Models for Phylogenetic Analyses

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Limits to the Rate of Adaptive Substitution in Sexual Populations

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The Lower Bound to the Evolution of Mutation Rates

(2011) Michael Lynch   Genome Biology and Evolution

The worldwide holoparasitic Apodanthaceae confidently placed in the Cucurbitales by nuclear and mitochondrial gene trees

(2010) Natalia Filipowicz et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Rate accelerations in nuclear 18S rDNA of mycoheterotrophic and parasitic angiosperms

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Patterns of Codon Usage Bias in Silene latifolia

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Antagonistic coevolution accelerates molecular evolution

(2010) Steve Paterson et al.   NATURE

Physiological ecology of mycoheterotrophy

(2010) Jonathan R. Leake et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Evolution of mycoheterotrophy in plants: a phylogenetic perspective

(2010) Vincent Merckx et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Mutation rate is linked to diversification in birds

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Watching the clock: Studying variation in rates of molecular evolution between species

(2010) Robert Lanfear et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The evolution of parasitism in plants

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

Effective population size and the rate and pattern of nucleotide substitutions

(2009) M. Woolfit   Biology Letters

Why do species vary in their rate of molecular evolution?

(2009) L. Bromham   Biology Letters

On the Brink of Holoparasitism: Plastome Evolution in Dwarf Mistletoes (Arceuthobium, Viscaceae)

(2009) Daniel L. Nickrent et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

Relaxed selection in the wild

(2009) David C. Lahti et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

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

(2008) Kirsten Krause   CURRENT GENETICS

Host-driven divergence in the parasitic plantOrobanche minorSm. (Orobanchaceae)

(2008) C. J. THOROGOOD et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Rates of Molecular Evolution Are Linked to Life History in Flowering Plants

(2008) S. A. Smith et al.   SCIENCE

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