A genome triplication associated with early diversification of the core eudicots

Table 1 Summary of datasets for eight sequenced plant genomes included in this study

Species	Annotation version	Number of annotated genes
Arabidopsis thaliana (thale cress)	TAIR version 9	27,379
Carica papaya (papaya)	ASGPB release	25,536
Cucumis sativus (cucumber)	BGI release	21,635
Populus trichocarpa (black cottonwood)	JGI version 2.0	41,377
Glycine max (soybean)	Phytozome version 1.0	55,787
Vitis vinifera (grape vine)	Genoscope release	30,434
Oryza sativa (rice)	RGAP release 6.1	56,979
Sorghum bicolor	JGI version 1.4	34,496

These eight genome sequences were used to construct orthogroups, which were then populated with additional unigenes of asterids, basal eudicots, non-grass monocots, and basal angiosperms. The number of annotated genes in each genome is indicated. ASGPB, Advanced Studies of Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics; JGI, Joint Genome Institute; RGAP, Rice Genome Annotation Project; TAIR, The Arabidopsis Information Resource.

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