Ancestral chloroplast genome in Mesostigma viride reveals an early branch of green plant evolution

C Lemieux, C Otis, M Turmel - Nature, 2000 - nature.com
… These clusters provide clues into how the green plant chloroplast genome diverged from the
ancestral pattern of gene organization during the evolution of Chlorophyta and Streptophyta…

The complete chloroplast DNA sequence of the green alga Nephroselmis olivacea: Insights into the architecture of ancestral chloroplast genomes

M Turmel, C Otis, C Lemieux - Proceedings of the National …, 1999 - National Acad Sciences
… the cpDNA organization of the ancestral green algae that appeared … gene partitioning in
the ancestral green algal genome trace their origin to the chloroplasts of the common ancestor

Analyses of charophyte chloroplast genomes help characterize the ancestral chloroplast genome of land plants

P Civáň, PG Foster, MT Embley… - Genome biology and …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
… Our results indicate that the ancestral zygnematophycean chloroplast genome was most
likely quadripartite but predisposed to structural instability. It contained at least 87 out of 89 …

The chloroplast genome: a review

J Dobrogojski, M Adamiec, R Luciński - Acta Physiologiae Plantarum, 2020 - Springer
… of the ancestral chloroplasts have been transferred from the chloroplast genome into the cell
… photosynthesis have been retained in the chloroplast genome. This review aims to provide …

Episodic evolution and adaptation of chloroplast genomes in ancestral grasses

B Zhong, T Yonezawa, Y Zhong, M Hasegawa - PLoS One, 2009 - journals.plos.org
… the adaptive evolution in the ancestral grasses, which might … ancestral grasses both in terms
of synonymous and non-synonymous substitutions. A more extensive study of chl genomes

Gene rearrangement analysis and ancestral order inference from chloroplast genomes with inverted repeat

F Yue, L Cui, CW Depamphilis, BME Moret, J Tang - BMC genomics, 2008 - Springer
chloroplast genomes to study the phylogeny and genome structural changes. Chloroplasts
… , photosynthetic organelles that originated from a free-living cyanobacteria-like ancestor [5]. …

… chloroplast DNA sequence of the green alga Oltmannsiellopsis viridis reveals a distinctive quadripartite architecture in the chloroplast genome of early diverging …

JF Pombert, C Lemieux, M Turmel - BMC biology, 2006 - Springer
… We conclude that the chloroplast genome of the last common ancestor of Oltmannsiellopsis
and Pseudendoclonium contained a minimum of 108 genes, was loosely packed with …

Adaptive evolution of chloroplast genome structure inferred using a parametric bootstrap approach

L Cui, J Leebens-Mack, LS Wang, J Tang… - BMC evolutionary …, 2006 - Springer
… By reconstructing the possible ancestral gene order in chloroplast genomes and simulating
rearrangements, we have been able to formally test and reject the null hypothesis that C. …

Comparative chloroplast genomics and phylogenetics of Fagopyrum esculentum ssp. ancestrale– A wild ancestor of cultivated buckwheat

MD Logacheva, TH Samigullin, A Dhingra, AA Penin - BMC Plant Biology, 2008 - Springer
… We report the complete chloroplast genome sequence of a wild ancestor of cultivated … of
chloroplast genomes. The gene content and order in buckwheat chloroplast genome is similar to …

Adaptive evolution of chloroplast genomes in ancestral grasses

M Hasegawa, B Zhong, Y Zhong - Plant signaling & behavior, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
… that the chloroplast genomes of the … using chloroplast genome data from 31 seed plants
species, we recently showed that episodic rate acceleration occurred in the common ancestral