Since 2006, numerous cases of bacterial symbionts with extraordinarily small genomes
have been reported. These organisms represent independent lineages from diverse …

Mitochondrial genomes are remarkably diverse among green plants, and the explosion of
genome sequencing over the last 30 years has greatly expanded our understanding of this …

Organellar (plastid and mitochondrial) genomes play an important role in resolving
phylogenetic relationships, and next-generation sequencing technologies have led to a …

Cultivated strawberry emerged from the hybridization of two wild octoploid species, both
descendants from the merger of four diploid progenitor species into a single nucleus more …

We have developed the web application GeSeq (https://chlorobox. mpimp-golm. mpg.
de/geseq. html) for the rapid and accurate annotation of organellar genome sequences, in …

The evolution in next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology has led to the development
of many different assembly algorithms, but few of them focus on assembling the organelle …

Mitochondrial and plastid genomes show a wide array of architectures, varying immensely in
size, structure, and content. Some organelle DNAs have even developed elaborate …

Genome size and complexity vary tremendously among eukaryotic species and their
organelles. Comparisons across deeply divergent eukaryotic lineages have suggested that …

Seagrasses colonized the sea on at least three independent occasions to form the basis of
one of the most productive and widespread coastal ecosystems on the planet. Here we …

It has been argued that the evolution of plant genome size is principally unidirectional and
increasing owing to the varied action of whole-genome duplications (WGDs) and mobile …