Comparative chloroplast genomics: analyses including new sequences from the angiosperms Nuphar advena and Ranunculus macranthus

Table 2 Extent of ycf15 motif (as defined by the tobacco sequence) in published angiosperm chloroplast genomes.

	Species^a	Accession Number	5' portion	3' portion	Length of intervening sequence^b (bp)
"basal" angiosperms	Amborella trichopoda	NC_005086	154	92	295
	Nuphar advena	NC_008788	154	70	299
	Nymphaea alba	NC_006050	154	74	299
	Calycanthus floridus	NC_004993	152	92	291
Monocots	Acorus calamus	NC_007407	154	0	N/A
	Phalaenopsis aphrodite	NC_007499	136	45	295
	Saccharum officinarum	NC_006084	139	79	305
	Zea mays	NC_001666	139	79	305
Eudicots Non-asterids	Arabidopsis thaliana	NC_000932	120	105	285
	Eucalyptus globulus	NC_008115	154	106	296
	Gossypium hirsutum	NC_007944	154	107	307
	Lotus japonicus	NC_002694	0	98	N/A
	Oenothera elata	NC_002693	154	110	284
	Ranunculus macranthus	NC_008796	0	78	N/A
	Spinacia oleracea	NC_002202	153	92	254
	Vitis vinifera	NC_007957	154	107	292
Eudicots Asterids	Atropa belladonna	NC_004561	154	110	0
	Epifagus virginiana	NC_001568	150	107	0
	Helianthus annuus	NC_007977	0	53	N/A
	Lactuca sativa	DQ383816	0	53	N/A
	Lycopersicon esculentum	DQ347959	154	110	0
	Nicotiana sylvestris	NC_007500	154	110	0
	Nicotiana tobaccum	NC_001879	154	110	0
	Nicotiana tomentosiformis	NC_007602	154	110	0
	Panax ginseng	NC_006290	154	106	0
	Solanum bulbocastanum	NC_007943	154	110	0
	Solanum tuberosum	NC_008096	154	110	0

^a ycf15 is 264 bp in the original annotation of Nicotiana, 147 bp in Amborella, 243 bp in Nymphaea and Calycanthus, 300 bp in 234 bp in Arabidopsis, 138 bp in Gossypium, 234 bp in Vitus, 213 bp in Atropa, 264 bp in Nicotiana sp. and Solanum sp., 264 bp in Lycopersicon, 162 bp in Helianthus, and 303 bp in Panax.
^b N/A = not applicable (cases where either 5' or 3' portion is missing)

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