BMC Evolutionary Biology BioMed Central Research article Open Access Complete plastid genome sequences of Drimys, Liriodendron, and Piper: implications for the phylogenetic relationships of magnoliids Zhengqiu Cai1, Cynthia Penaflor2, Jennifer V Kuehl3, James Leebens-Mack4, John E Carlson5, Claude W dePamphilis6, Jeffrey L Boore3 and Robert K Jansen*1 Address: 1Section of Integrative Biology and Institute of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Patterson Laboratories 141, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712, USA, 2Biology Department, 373 WIDB, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, USA, 3DOE Joint Genome Institute and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Walnut Creek, CA 94598, USA, 4Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia, Athens GA, USA, 5School of Forest Resources and Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA and 6Department of Biology, Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA Email: Zhengqiu Cai -
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[email protected] * Corresponding author Published: 04 October 2006 Received: 13 June 2006 Accepted: 04 October 2006 BMC Evolutionary Biology 2006, 6:77 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-6-77 This article is available from: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/6/77 © 2006 Cai et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.