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Table 1 Sampled groups

From: Widespread positive selection in the photosynthetic Rubisco enzyme

Group

N orders

N families

N genera

N sequences

The Plantae Kingdom (plants)

Magnoliophyta (angiosperms)

43

203

1544

2572

Pinophyta and Gnetophyta (gymnosperms)

3

6

40

201

Filicophyta (ferns)

1

10

39

156

Lycopodiophyta (clubmosses)

1

1

3

27

Equisetophyta (horsetails)

1

1

1

19

Bryophyta (mosses)

8

20

42

88

Charophyta (green algae)

1

1

6

49

Plastid-carrying eukaryotes which are not in the Plantae Kingdom

Phaeophyta (brown algae)

4

11

30

48

Bacillariophyta (diatoms)

6

10

15

20

Rhodophyta (red algae)

6

10

14

20

Euglenida (euglenid protists)

2

2

5

11

Prokaryotes

Cyanobacteria

2

4

8

17

Sum

78

279

1747

3228