BMC Evolutionary Biology

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Multiple major increases and decreases in mitochondrial substitution rates in the plant family Geraniaceae

Christopher L Parkinson1,2, Jeffrey P Mower1, Yin-Long Qiu1,3, Andrew J Shirk1,4, Keming Song1,5, Nelson D Young6, Claude W dePamphilis7 and Jeffrey D Palmer1*

Author Affiliations

1 Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405-3700, USA

2 Department of Biology, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816, USA

3 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA

4 Department of Otolaryngology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA

5 Sigma Chemical Co., 3300 S. 2nd St., St. Louis, MO, 63118, USA

6 Department of Biology, Holyoke Community College, Holyoke, MA 01040, USA

7 Department of Biology, Penn State University, University Park, PA 16802-0001, USA

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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2005, 5:73 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-5-73

Published: 20 December 2005

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Additional File 1:

Absolute substitution rates per branch. This table gives a complete list of estimates for divergence times, number of substitutions per synonymous site (dS), absolute rate of synonymous substitution (RS), number of substitutions per nonsynonymous site (dN), absolute rate of nonsynonymous substitution (RN), and RN/RS ratios for all branches shown in figure 4.

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Additional File 2:

Sequences used in this study. This table lists the GenBank accession numbers for all sequences used in this study. 2a) List of mitochondrial sequences used for figure 1. 2b) List of chloroplast sequences used for figure 1. 2c) List of nuclear sequences used for figure 1. 2d) List of sequences used for figures 2, 3, 4.

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