Evolutionary Analysis of Plastid Genomes of Seven Lonicera L. Species: Implications for Sequence Divergence and Phylogenetic Relationships.

ABSTRACT: Plant plastomes play crucial roles in species evolution and phylogenetic reconstruction studies due to being maternally inherited and due to the moderate evolutionary rate of genomes. However, patterns of sequence divergence and molecular evolution of the plastid genomes in the horticulturally- and economically-important Lonicera L. species are poorly understood. In this study, we collected the complete plastomes of seven Lonicera species and determined the various repeat sequence variations and protein sequence evolution by comparative genomic analysis. A total of 498 repeats were identified in plastid genomes, which included tandem (130), dispersed (277), and palindromic (91) types of repeat variations. Simple sequence repeat (SSR) elements analysis indicated the enriched S

SUBMITTER: Liu ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6321470 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature