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From: Inferring the evolutionary mechanism of the chloroplast genome size by comparing whole-chloroplast genome sequences in seed plants

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Variations in chloroplast genome size and the sequence characteristics of chloroplast genomes within seed plants. The box plots of chloroplast genome size and sequence characteristics of chloroplast genome are shown for each order. The complete order names are in Supplementary Table S1. The box plots represent the median (central line), first and third quartiles (black box), and outliers (black circles). TL, IRL, LSCL, SSCL, GRL, IGRL, and GN indicate the total length of the chloroplast genome, length of the inverted repeat region, large single copy, small single copy, gene region, intergenic region, and gene number, respectively. Red triangles in TL indicate there were no inverted repeat regions in these species. The numbers below order names are the number of species collected in each order. The number in the brackets indicates the number of species without an inverted repeat region. The three lines from the top to bottom represent the first quartiles, the median, and the third quartiles of the sequence characteristics of all seed plants examined in this study, respectively.

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