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Ancestral chloroplast genome in Mesostigma viride reveals an early branch of green plant evolution

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  • Claude Lemieux

    (Université Laval)

  • Christian Otis

    (Université Laval)

  • Monique Turmel

    (Université Laval)

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Sequence comparisons suggest that all living green plants belong to one of two major phyla1,2,3: Streptophyta4 (land plants and their closest green algal relatives, the charophytes); and Chlorophyta5 (the rest of green algae). Because no green algae are known that pre-date the Streptophyta/Chlorophyta split, and also because the earliest diverging green algae show considerable morphological variation, the nature of the unicellular flagellate ancestor of the two green plant phyla is unknown1,6,7. Here we report that the flagellate Mesostigma viride belongs to the earliest diverging green plant lineage discovered to date. We have sequenced the entire chloroplast DNA (118,360 base pairs) of this green alga and have conducted phylogenetic analyses of sequences derived from this genome. Mesostigma represents a lineage that emerged before the divergence of the Streptophyta and Chlorophyta, a position that is supported by several features of its chloroplast DNA. The structure and gene organization of this genome indicate that chloroplast DNA architecture has been extremely well conserved in the line leading to land plants.

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  • Claude Lemieux & Christian Otis & Monique Turmel, 2000. "Ancestral chloroplast genome in Mesostigma viride reveals an early branch of green plant evolution," Nature, Nature, vol. 403(6770), pages 649-652, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:403:y:2000:i:6770:d:10.1038_35001059
    DOI: 10.1038/35001059
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    1. Anuj Srivastava & Liming Cai & Jan Mrázek & Russell L Malmberg, 2011. "Mutational Patterns in RNA Secondary Structure Evolution Examined in Three RNA Families," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 6(6), pages 1-10, June.

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