Contradiction between Plastid Gene Transcription and Function Due to Complex Posttranscriptional Splicing: An Exemplary Study of ycf15 Function and Evolution in Angiosperms

• Chao Shi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Chao Shi, Yuan Liu

  Affiliations Key Laboratory of Biodiversity and Biogeography, Kunming Institute of Botany, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China, Plant Germplasm and Genomics Center, Germplasm Bank of Wild Species in Southwest China, Kunming Institute of Botany, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Yuan Liu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Chao Shi, Yuan Liu

  Affiliations Plant Germplasm and Genomics Center, Germplasm Bank of Wild Species in Southwest China, Kunming Institute of Botany, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Hui Huang,

  Affiliation Plant Germplasm and Genomics Center, Germplasm Bank of Wild Species in Southwest China, Kunming Institute of Botany, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China

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• En-Hua Xia,

  Affiliations Plant Germplasm and Genomics Center, Germplasm Bank of Wild Species in Southwest China, Kunming Institute of Botany, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Hai-Bin Zhang,

  Affiliations Plant Germplasm and Genomics Center, Germplasm Bank of Wild Species in Southwest China, Kunming Institute of Botany, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Li-Zhi Gao

  * E-mail: Lgao@mail.kib.ac.cn

  Affiliation Plant Germplasm and Genomics Center, Germplasm Bank of Wild Species in Southwest China, Kunming Institute of Botany, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China

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