The Loss of the Inverted Repeat in the Putranjivoid Clade of Malpighiales.

ABSTRACT: The typical plastid genome (plastome) of photosynthetic angiosperms comprises a pair of Inverted Repeat regions (IRs), which separate a Large Single Copy region (LSC) from a Small Single Copy region (SSC). The independent losses of IRs have been documented in only a few distinct plant lineages. The majority of these taxa show uncommonly high levels of plastome structural variations, while a few have otherwise conserved plastomes. For a better understanding of the function of IRs in stabilizing plastome structure, more taxa that have lost IRs need to be investigated. We analyzed the plastomes of eight species from two genera of the putranjivoid clade of Malpighiales using Illumina paired-end sequencing, the de novo assembly strategy GetOrganelle, as well as a combination of two annot

SUBMITTER: Jin DM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7332575 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature