*3.5. Genome Comparison*

The chloroplast genomes of *C. farinosa, C. glandulosa, M. crassifolia* and *M. oblongifolia* were compared using the program mVISTA [78], and the annotation of *C. farinosa* was used as a reference in the Shuffle-LAGAN mode [79]. The four species of Capparaceae were compared against the border region between inverted repeat (IR), large single copy (LSC) and small single copy (SSC).
