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Adaptive evolution of chloroplast genome structure inferred using a parametric bootstrap approach

Liying Cui1 email, Jim Leebens-Mack1 email, Li-San Wang2 email, Jijun Tang3 email, Linda Rymarquis4 email, David B Stern4 email and Claude W dePamphilis1 email

Department of Biology, Institute of Molecular Evolutionary Genetics, and Huck Institutes of Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA

Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA

Boyce Thompson Institute, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA

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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2006, 6:13doi:10.1186/1471-2148-6-13

Published: 9 February 2006

Additional files

Additional File 1:

Gene coding and functional categories. Text file, lists the names of 85 genes included in the study and corresponding functional categories.

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Additional File 3:

The gene order data set. Text file, contains gene orders of seven chloroplast genomes, computed Cs and Cf indices, and the inferred rearrangement phylogeny.

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Additional File 2:

Protein alignment matrix. Text file, with a NEXUS format data matrix of concatenated proteins from seven chloroplast genomes and the outgroup, Cyanophora paradoxa.

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Additional File 4:

Comparison of gene clusters. Text file, shows gene clusters shared between the inferred ancestral genome of C. reinhardtii and C. vulgaris to the cpDNA of C. vulgaris and N. olivacea.

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Additional File 5:

Inversions separating N. tabacum and M. polymorpha cpDNA. Text file, shows the possible scenarios to transform the chloroplast gene order of N. tabacum to M. polymorpha cpDNA through inversions.

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