Article
Comparative chloroplast genomes of pinaceae: insights into the mechanism of diversified genomic organizations.
Genome biology and evolution - 1 Jan 2011
Wu Chung-Shien, Lin Ching-Ping, Hsu Chi-Yao, Wang Rui-Jiang, Chaw Shu-Miaw
Abstract excerpt
Pinaceae, the largest family of conifers, has diversified organizations of chloroplast genomes (cpDNAs) with the two typical inverted repeats (IRs) highly reduced. To unravel the mechanism of this genomic diversification, we examined the cpDNA organizations from 53 species of the ten Pinaceous genera, including those of Larix decidua (122,474 bp), Picea morrisonicola (124,168 bp), and Pseudotsuga wilsoniana...
Topics
- Base Sequence
- Chloroplasts
- DNA, Chloroplast
- Evolution, Molecular
- Gene Order
- Genome, Chloroplast
- Genome, Plant
- Introns
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Pinaceae
