Organellar genomes of the four-toothed moss, Tetraphis pellucida.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mosses are the largest of the three extant clades of gametophyte-dominant land plants and remain poorly studied using comparative genomic methods. Major monophyletic moss lineages are characterised by different types of a spore dehiscence apparatus called the peristome, and the most important unsolved problem in higher-level moss systematics is the branching order of these peristomate clades. Organellar genome sequencing offers the potential to resolve this issue through the provision of both genomic structural characters and a greatly increased quantity of nucleotide substitution characters, as well as to elucidate organellar evolution in mosses. We publish and describe the chloroplast and mitochondrial genomes of Tetraphis pellucida, representative of the most phylogen

SUBMITTER: Bell NE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4035505 | biostudies-literature | 2014 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature