Rai, Hardeep S.Reeves, Patrick A.Peakall, RodneyOlmstead, Richard G.Graham, Sean W.2015-12-101916-2790http://hdl.handle.net/1885/54844We reconstructed the broad backbone of conifer phylogeny from a survey of 15-17 plastid loci and associated noncoding regions from exemplar conifer species. Parsimony and likelihood analyses recover the same higher-order relationships, and we find strongKeywords: bootstrapping; coniferous tree; data set; evolution; gymnosperm; mutation; phylogeny; plastid; reconstruction; Araucariaceae; Cephalotaxaceae; Cephalotaxus; Coniferophyta; Cupressaceae; Gnetales; Gymnospermae; Pinaceae; Podocarpaceae; Sciadopityaceae; Spe Chloroplast genome; Gymnosperms; Microstructural mutations; Rps7; Seed-plant phylogeny; Wollemia200810.1139/B08-0622015-12-09