Complete Chloroplast Genomes of Anthurium huixtlense and Pothos scandens (Pothoideae, Araceae): Unique Inverted Repeat Expansion and Contraction Affect Rate of Evolution

• Published in: Journal of molecular evolution Vol. 88; no. 7; pp. 562 - 574
• Main Authors: Abdullah, Henriquez, Claudia L., Mehmood, Furrukh, Carlsen, Monica M., Islam, Madiha, Waheed, Mohammad Tahir, Poczai, Peter, Croat, Thomas B., Ahmed, Ibrar
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.09.2020; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Amino acids; Animal Genetics and Genomics; Anthurium; Araceae; Araceae - genetics; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Cell Biology; Chloroplasts; Contraction; Evolution; Evolution, Molecular; Evolutionary Biology; Evolutionary genetics; Gene duplication; Genes; Genome, Chloroplast; Genomes; Inverted repeat; Inverted Repeat Sequences; Life Sciences; Microbiology; Molecular evolution; Mutation; Mutation rates; Oligonucleotides; Original; Original Article; Phylogeny; Plant Genetics and Genomics; Plant Sciences; Reproduction (copying); Sequence Analysis, DNA; Transversion; Whole Genome Sequencing; Inverted repeat contraction and expansion; Pothoideae; Gene evolution; Araceae; Gene rearrangement; Anthurium; Pothos

The subfamily Pothoideae belongs to the ecologically important plant family Araceae. Here, we report the chloroplast genomes of two species of the subfamily Pothoideae: Anthurium huixtlense (size: 163,116 bp) and Pothos scandens (size: 164,719 bp). The chloroplast genome of P. scandens showed unique...