Analyses of charophyte chloroplast genomes help characterize theancestral chloroplastgenomeof land plants

Civan, P.
Foster, P. G.
Embley, T. M.
Séneca, A.
Cox, C. J.

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Publication date

October 2014

DOI

10.1093/gbe/evu061

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Oxford University Press (OUP)

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Genome Biology and Evolution

Abstract

Despitethesignificanceoftherelationshipsbetweenembryophytesandtheircharophytealgalancestorsindecipheringtheoriginand evolutionary success of land plants, few chloroplast genomes of the charophyte algae have been reconstructed to date. Here, we present new data for three chloroplast genomes of the freshwater charophytes Klebsormidium flaccidum (Klebsormidiophyceae), Mesotaenium endlicherianum (Zygnematophyceae), and Roya anglica (Zygnematophyceae)