Complete Chloroplast Genome of the Wollemi Pine (Wollemia nobilis): Structure and Evolution.

ABSTRACT: The Wollemi pine (Wollemia nobilis) is a rare Southern conifer with striking morphological similarity to fossil pines. A small population of W. nobilis was discovered in 1994 in a remote canyon system in the Wollemi National Park (near Sydney, Australia). This population contains fewer than 100 individuals and is critically endangered. Previous genetic studies of the Wollemi pine have investigated its evolutionary relationship with other pines in the family Araucariaceae, and have suggested that the Wollemi pine genome contains little or no variation. However, these studies were performed prior to the widespread use of genome sequencing, and their conclusions were based on a limited fraction of the Wollemi pine genome. In this study, we address this problem by determining the entire sequen

SUBMITTER: Yap JY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4464890 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature