Exploring the limits for reduction of plastid genomes: A case study of the mycoheterotrophic orchids Epipogium aphyllum and Epipogium roseum

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1179-1191

  Schelkunov, Mikhail I ^a   Shtratnikova, Viktoria Yu ^a   Nuraliev, Maxim S ^a,b   Selosse, Marc Andre ^c   Penin, Aleksey A ^a   Logacheva, Maria D ^a,d  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b Joint Russian Vietnamese Tropical Scientific and Technological Center   (Viet Nam)

^c MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^d KAZAN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Gene loss; Genome reduction; Nonphotosynthetic plants; Orchids; Plastid genome

Indexed keywords

CODON; PLANT DNA; PLANT PROTEIN; TRANSFER RNA;

CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CODON; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; GENOME SIZE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; ORCHIDACEAE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENE; PLASTID GENOME;

BASE COMPOSITION; CODON; DNA, PLANT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, PLANT; GENOME SIZE; GENOME, PLASTID; MUTATION; ORCHIDACEAE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, TRANSFER;

EID: 84936124838     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evv019     Document Type: Article

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