Organellar data sets confirm overall angiosperm relationships if problematic RNA-edit sites are accounted for in mitochondrial genomes
Wesley K. Gerelle, Matthias Jost, Isabel Marques, D. H. Les, Rodrigo Vallejos, Stefan A. Little, Brandon T. Sinn, Dmitry D. Sokoloff, Terry Desmond Macfarlane, William J. D. Iles, Taylor S. Feild, Sarah Mathews, Michael J. Moore, Thomas L. P. Couvreur, Hervé Sauquet, , Sean W. Graham
The paper compares mitochondrial and plastid-based phylogenomic analyses in angiosperms, showing that removing RNA-edit sites from mitochondrial data improves congruence and supports key relationships.
bioRxiv · Jun 9, 2025 · PreprintPlant Biology