Correspondence
The Amborella genome: an evolutionary reference for plant biology
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* Corresponding author: Pamela S Soltis psoltis@flmnh.ufl.edu
1 Department of Botany and the Genetics Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
2 Joint Centre for Bioinformatics in Oslo, University of Oslo and Rikshospitalet HF, Blindern, NO-0316 Oslo, Norway
3 Department of Biological Sciences, University at Buffalo (SUNY), Buffalo, NY 14260-1300, USA
4 Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
5 Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
6 Department of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
7 Department of Biology, the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, and the Institute of Molecular Evolutionary Genetics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
8 School of Forest Resources, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
9 Department of Statistics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
10 National Institute of Biological Resources, Incheon 404-170, Korea
11 Florida Museum of Natural History and the Genetics Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
Genome Biology 2008, 9:402 doi:10.1186/gb-2008-9-3-402
Published: 10 March 2008Abstract
The nuclear genome sequence of Amborella trichopoda, the sister species to all other extant angiosperms, will be an exceptional resource for plant genomics.