Comprehensive characterization and phylogenetic analysis of the complete plastomes of two ant–orchids, Caularthron bicornutum and Myrmecophila thomsoniana
Jin-Wei Li, Ru-Yi Li, Yu-Ming Chen, Yu-Han Wu, Long-Hai Zou, Shu-Ling Tang, Jun-Wen Zhai · 2024
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Description
Jin-Wei Li and six co-authors sequenced the full plastid genomes in two thousand twenty-four of two orchids that live with ants. Such plants grow hollow parts where ants can live, a handy system for studying ant-plant ties. The two orchids, from the genera Caularthron and Myrmecophila, were thought to be close kin, but their exact place was unsure.
Both genomes are about one hundred fifty thousand letters long with similar gene sets. One orchid showed a striking shift, with an expanded repeat region and a much shrunken small region, a first for its tribe. Family tree analysis with these genomes clarifies how the two genera relate.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Jin-Wei Li, Ru-Yi Li, Yu-Ming Chen, Yu-Han Wu, Long-Hai Zou, Shu-Ling Tang, Jun-Wen Zhai |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 38 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |