Relative rates of synonymous substitutions in the mitochondrial, chloroplast and nuclear genomes of seed plants

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• 作者：Guy Drouin ; Hanane Daoud ; Junnan Xia
• 关键词：Synonymous ; Substitutions ; Angiosperms ; Gnetales ; Gymnosperms
• 刊名：Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
• 出版年：2008
• 出版时间：December 2008
• 年：2008
• 卷：49
• 期：3
• 页码：827-831
• 全文大小：169 K

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Previous studies have estimated that, in angiosperms, the synonymous substitution rate of chloroplast genes is three times higher than that of mitochondrial genes and that of nuclear genes is twelve times higher than that of mitochondrial genes. Here we used 12 genes in 27 seed plant species to investigate whether these relative rates of substitutions are common to diverse seed plant groups. We find that the overall relative rate of synonymous substitutions of mitochondrial, chloroplast and nuclear genes of all seed plants is 1:3:10, that these ratios are 1:2:4 in gymnosperms but 1:3:16 in angiosperms and that they go up to 1:3:20 in basal angiosperms. Our results show that the mitochondrial, chloroplast and nuclear genomes of seed plant groups have different synonymous substitutions rates, that these rates are different in different seed plant groups and that gymnosperms have smaller ratios than angiosperms.