The first complete plastid genomes of Melastomataceae are highly structurally conserved.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In the past three decades, several studies have predominantly relied on a small sample of the plastome to infer deep phylogenetic relationships in the species-rich Melastomataceae. Here, we report the first full plastid sequences of this family, compare general features of the sampled plastomes to other sequenced Myrtales, and survey the plastomes for highly informative regions for phylogenetics.

Methods

Genome skimming was performed for 16 species spread across the Melastomataceae. Plastomes were assembled, annotated and compared to eight sequenced plastids in the Myrtales. Phylogenetic inference was performed using Maximum Likelihood on six different data sets, where putative biases were taken into account. Summary statistics were generated for all introns and i

SUBMITTER: Reginato M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5131623 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature