bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/320085; this version posted May 11, 2018. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY 4.0 International license. 1 Assembly of chloroplast genomes with long- and short-read 2 data: a comparison of approaches using Eucalyptus pauciflora as 3 a test case 4 5 Weiwen Wang1*, Miriam Schalamun1,2, Alejandro Morales-Suarez3, David 6 Kainer1, Benjamin Schwessinger1, Robert Lanfear1 7 8 1. Research School of Biology, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia 9 2. Institute of Applied Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Natural Resources 10 and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria 11 3. Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia * 12 Corresponding author 13 14 Email: 15 Weiwen Wang:
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[email protected] 21 22 1 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/320085; this version posted May 11, 2018. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY 4.0 International license. 23 Abstract 24 Background 25 Chloroplasts are organelles that conduct photosynthesis in plant and algal cells.