Table 2.
Type and size of minicircle sequences in the chloroplast genomes studied
| A. carterae | A. operculatum | H. triquetra | |
| total length (bp) | 45,815 | 34,186 | 42,769 |
| mean GC content | 45.27% | 46.46% | 37.02% |
| gene containing minicircles | |||
| psaA | 2,558 | 2,443 | 3,005 |
| psaB | 2,366 | 2,363 | 3,121 |
| psbA | 2,520 | 2,311 | 2,151 |
| psbB | 2,327 | 2,282 | 2,286 |
| psbC | 2,477 | 2,341 | 2,330 |
| psbD/E/I | 2,358 | 2,369 | |
| psbD | 2,628# | ||
| psbE | 2,196# | ||
| petB/atpA | 2,606 | 2,713 | |
| petB | 2,204 | ||
| atpA | 2,444 | ||
| petD | 2,563 | 2,416 | 2,177# |
| atpB | 2,587 | 2,483 | - |
| LSU rRNA | 2,713 | 2,651 | 3,027 |
| SSU rRNA | (2,533) | (2,458) | 2,563 |
| 'empty' minicircles | |||
| No. | 10 | 5 | 1 |
| total length of empty minicircles | 20,729 (18,196$) | 9,825 (7,367$) | 2,012# |
| chimeric minicircles | 5 | ||
| total length of chimeric minicircles | 10,625 |
$Not including putative SSU rRNA minicircle.
#These sequences were submitted to the sequence database whilst this paper was in submission, the sequences do not therefore form part of our comparative analysis.