Table 1.

Basic Characteristics of the Newly Sequenced Plastid Genomes

	Eustigmatales				Goniochloridales
	Eustigmataceae Group		Pseudellipsoidion Group	New Lineage	Clade IIa		Clade IIc
	Vischeria sp. ACOI 3415	Characiopsis acuta ACOI 456	Pseudellipsoidion edaphicum CAUP Q 401	Strain Mont 10/10-1w	Strain Ndem 8/9T-3m6.8	Strain Bat 8/9-7w	Strain Chic 10/23 P-6w
Size (bp)	126,352	121,124	123,658	117,466	120,715	120,042	125,946
inverted repeat (bp)	9,783	10,379	9,777	9,323	9,434	9,446	10,072
LSC region (bp)	62,223	55,382	55,318	54,099	56,274	55,928	55,586
SSC region (bp)	44,563	44,984	48,786	44,721	45,573	45,232	50,216
Total GC content (%)	32.43	33.51	32.18	32.35	33.83	33.66	34.59
Gene content (total)	166	161	166	157	164	162	170
Common conserved plastid protein-coding genes	127	127	128	125	130	128	130
Conserved group-specific genes (ycf95, orf1_gon, orf1_eust)	2	2	1	1	2	2	2
ebo operon genes	6	0	0	0	0	0	0
ORFs without homologs	0	0	5	0	0	0	6
rRNA genes	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
tRNA genes	27	28	28	27	28	28	28
Other noncoding RNA genes (only ssrA)	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Number of genes in inverted repeat	12	12	12	11	12	12	13

Note.—Genes present in inverted repeats are counted only once for the gene counts provided in the table. Abbreviations used: LSC, long single-copy region; SSC, short single-copy region; ORFs, open-reading frames.