The Amborella genome: an evolutionary reference for plant biology

Douglas E Soltis¹, Victor A Albert^2,3, Jim Leebens-Mack⁴, Jeffrey D Palmer⁵, Rod A Wing⁶, Claude W dePamphilis⁷, Hong Ma⁷, John E Carlson⁸, Naomi Altman⁹, Sangtae Kim¹⁰, P Kerr Wall⁷, Andrea Zuccolo⁶ and Pamela S Soltis¹¹

¹Department of Botany and the Genetics Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA

²Joint Centre for Bioinformatics in Oslo, University of Oslo and Rikshospitalet HF, Blindern, NO-0316 Oslo, Norway

³Department of Biological Sciences, University at Buffalo (SUNY), Buffalo, NY 14260-1300, USA

⁴Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA

⁵Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA

⁶Department of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA

⁷Department of Biology, the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, and the Institute of Molecular Evolutionary Genetics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA

⁸School of Forest Resources, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA

⁹Department of Statistics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA

¹⁰National Institute of Biological Resources, Incheon 404-170, Korea

¹¹Florida Museum of Natural History and the Genetics Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA