Data from the article "Plastome sequencing of South American Podocarpus species reveals low rearrangement rates despite ancient Gondwanan disjunctions"

Input data, intermediate and final analysis output files associated to the manuscript "Plastome sequencing of South American <em>Podocarpus </em>species reveals low rearrangement rates despite ancient Gondwanan disjunctions" We sequenced the plastomes of four South American species of <em>Podocarpus</em> from Patagonia, southern Yungas, and Brazilian subtropical forests: <em>P. nubigenus, P. parlatorei, P. salignus </em>and <em>P. selowii</em>. We compared their plastomes to those published from Brazil, Africa, New Zealand, and Southeast Asia, along with representatives from other genera within Podocarpaceae as outgroups. The four newly sequenced plastomes ranged in size between 133,791 bp and 133,991 bp. Gene content and order among chloroplasts from South American, African and Asian <em>Podocarpus</em> were conserved and different from the plastome of <em>P. totara</em>, from New Zealand. Most genes showed substitution patterns consistent with a conservative selective regime. Phylogenies inferred from either complete sequences or protein coding regions were mostly congruent with previous studies, but showed earlier branching of <em>P. salignus</em>, <em>P. totara</em> and <em>P. sellowii</em>.