Comprehensive sampling of mitochondrial genomes substantiates the Neoproterozoic origin of land plants.

ABSTRACT: Molecular phylogenetics elucidates the evolution and divergence of green plants by analyzing sequence data from diverse sources. Notably, phylogenetic reconstruction based on mitochondrial genes often shows incongruence with results from nuclear and chloroplast genes. Although the uniparental inheritance and conservatively retained protein-coding genes of mitochondrial genomes inherently exclude certain confounding factors that affect phylogenetic reconstruction-such as hybridization and gene loss-the use of mitochondrial genomes for phylogeny and divergence-time estimation has remained limited. Here, we assembled a comprehensive dataset of 565 mitochondrial genomes representing all major lineages of green plants. Applying multiple partitions and phylogenetic models, our mitochondrial-base

SUBMITTER: Hu SY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12785157 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature