Genome Research 20: 1700–1710 (2010)
Localized hypermutation and associated gene losses in legume chloroplast genomes
Alan M. Magee, Sue Aspinall, Danny W. Rice, Brian P. Cusack, Marie Sémon, Antoinette S. Perry, Saša Stefanović, Dan Milbourne, Susanne Barth, Jeffrey D. Palmer, John C. Gray, Tony A. Kavanagh, and Kenneth H. Wolfe
The structures of the two Trifolium repens cDNAs reported in Figure S6 of this paper are incorrect. The T. repens nuclear accD-coding region is fused to LPD1, not LPD2 as reported. We incorrectly assembled full-length cDNAs from expressed sequence tags, resulting in erroneous “recombination” between LPD1 and LPD2 in a region of high similarity about 200 bp upstream of the LPD1-accD junction. Correct sequences of LPD1-accD and LPD2 cDNAs from both T. repens and T. pratense have been reported by Sabir et al. (2014) and deposited in GenBank (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/) with accession numbers KF781540–KF781544. We have therefore withdrawn our T. repens cDNA sequences from the nucleotide databases (European Nucleotide Archive accession numbers HM029367–HM029368; http://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/home).
The authors apologize for any inconvenience caused by this error and thank Jin Zhang, Bob Jansen, and Tracey Ruhlman for bringing it to our attention. This correction does not affect any of the paper’s conclusions other than the name of the fusion gene.
Reference
Sabir J, Schwarz E, Ellison N, Zhang J, Baeshen NA, Mutwakil M, Jansen R, Ruhlman T. 2014. Evolutionary and biotechnology implications of plastid genome variation in the inverted repeat-lacking clade of legumes. Plant Biotech J doi: 10.1111/pbi.12179.