Molecular Systematics of Plants

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Prospects on the evolutionary mitogenomics of plants: A case study on the olive family (Oleaceae)

“…Unlike chloroplast and nuclear genes, polymorphism in the mitochondrial genome (hereafter mitogenome) is not frequently used to reconstruct phylogenies and phylogeographies or for DNA barcoding in higher plants, which stands in contrast with studies on animals (e.g., Donnelly et al, 2017;Duminil, 2014;Govindarajulu, Parks, Tennessen, Liston, & Ashman, 2015;Mower, Sloan, & Alverson, 2012;Qiu et al, 2006). This is due to three main reasons: First, mitochondrial genes of plants usually evolve slowly compared to those of the plastome (three to four times slower) or the nuclear genome (~12 times slower; Wolfe, Li, & Sharp, 1987;Palmer & Herbon, 1988;Palmer, 1992). The rate of nucleotide substitutions in coding regions of a plant's mitogenome has been estimated to be around 100 times lower than in animal mitogenomes and four to six times lower than in fungal mitogenomes (Aguileta et al, 2014;Nabholz, Gl emin, & Galtier, 2009;Wolfe et al, 1987).…”