This article reviews the current state-of-the-art concerning the functions of the signal processing protein PII in cyanobacteria and plants, with a special focus on evolutionary aspects. We start out ...

The malaria parasite carries a plastid called the apicoplast that has been the subject of intense study in the last 15 years. Having originated from red-algal plastids, the apicoplast has lost its ...

Schematic diagram showing the formation of the A-type plastome in D. tasmanica through intermolecular recombination of the G-type plastome. The first recombination mediated by the 11-bp IRs merges two ...

“De novo genes are often overlooked because they emerge from noncoding DNA and lack evolutionary history,” said lead author Yuepeng Han. “Our study shows that these genes are not only real but also ...