Plastome sequencing of South American Podocarpus species reveals low rearrangement rates despite ancient gondwanan disjunctions.

Highly similar and conserved plastomes of African, South American and Asian species suggest that P. totara plastome should be revised and compared to other species from Oceanic distribution. Furthermore, given such structural conservation, we suggest plastome sequencing is not useful to test whether genomic order can be climatically or geologically structured.