title: Next-generation sequencing data suggest that certain nonphotosynthetic green plants have lost their plastid genomes.
authors: Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, N6A 5B7, Canada.
authors: David Roy
authors: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9560-5210
authors: DR
authors: Smith
authors: Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, N6A 5B7, Canada.
authors: Sara Raad
authors: SR
authors: Asmail
mesh_terms: D000460:Chlorophyta / Q000235:genetics; D018744:DNA, Plant; D035264:Flowers / Q000235:genetics; D054627:Genome, Plastid; D059014:High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing; D019684:Magnoliopsida / Q000235:genetics; D010788:Photosynthesis; D018087:Plastids / Q000235:genetics; D057948:Viridiplantae / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D018744:DNA, Plant
keywords: Polytomella; Rafflesia; chloroplast genome; next-generation sequencing (NGS); nonphotosynthetic green plants; organelle DNA; photosynthesis