Plastids and mitochondria each arose from a single endosymbiotic event and share many
similarities in how they were reduced and integrated with their host. However, the …

The multiple independent origins of plant parasitism suggest that numerous ancestral plant
lineages possessed the developmental flexibility to meet the requirements of a parasitic life …

Genome sequences from over 200 plant species have already been published, with this
number expected to increase rapidly due to advances in sequencing technologies. Once a …

This review bridges functional and evolutionary aspects of plastid chromosome architecture
in land plants and their putative ancestors. We provide an overview on the structure and …

Chloroplasts are cytoplasmic organelles and the sites of photosynthesis in eukaryotic cells.
Advances in structural biology and comparative genomics allow us to identify individual …

The plastid genome of plants is the smallest and most gene‐rich of the three genomes in
each cell and the one generally present in the highest copy number. As a result, obtaining …

Rafflesia is a genus of holoparasitic plants endemic to Southeast Asia that has lost the ability
to undertake photosynthesis. With short-read sequencing technology, we assembled a draft …

Although genomes of mitochondria and plastids are very small compared to those of their
bacterial ancestors, the transcription machineries of these organelles are of surprising …

Evolutionary loss of traits can result from negative selection on a specific phenotype, or if the
trait is selectively neutral, because the phenotype associated with the trait has become …

Apicomplexans and related lineages comprise many obligate symbionts of animals; some of
which cause notorious diseases such as malaria. They evolved from photosynthetic …