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. 2014 Feb 17:12:11.
doi: 10.1186/1741-7007-12-11.

Plastid phylogenomics and green plant phylogeny: almost full circle but not quite there

Charles C Davis  1 , Zhenxiang Xi, Sarah Mathews
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Plastid phylogenomics and green plant phylogeny: almost full circle but not quite there

Charles C Davis et al. BMC Biol. .

Abstract

A study in BMC Evolutionary Biology represents the most comprehensive effort to clarify the phylogeny of green plants using sequences from the plastid genome. This study highlights the strengths and limitations of plastome data for resolving the green plant phylogeny, and points toward an exciting future for plant phylogenetics, during which the vast and largely untapped territory of nuclear genomes will be explored.

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Simplified green plant phylogeny inferred by Ruhfel et al. [[2]]. Dashed line branches indicate phylogenetic placements that remain unresolved by the plastome. Relationships that are well resolved in the plastome tree but contentious are highlighted in red. The green algal lineage Klebsormidiophyceae was not included in the plastome study, and thus was not included in the figure.
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