Data from: Resolution of the ordinal phylogeny of mosses using targeted exons from organellar and nuclear genomes

Mosses are a highly diverse lineage of land plants, whose diversification,
spanning at least 400 million years, remains phylogenetically ambiguous
due to the lack of fossils, massive early extinctions, late radiations,
limited morphological variation, and conflicting signal among previously
used markers. Here, we present phylogenetic reconstructions based on
complete organellar exomes and a comparable set of nuclear genes for this
major lineage of land plants. Our analysis of 142 species representing 29
of the 30 moss orders reveals that relative average rates of
non-synonymous substitutions in nuclear versus plastid genes are much
higher in mosses than in seed plants, consistent with the emerging concept
of evolutionary dynamism in mosses. Our results highlight the evolutionary
significance of taxa with reduced morphologies, shed light on the relative
tempo and mechanisms underlying major cladogenic events, and suggest
hypotheses for the relationships and delineation of moss orders.