Whole genome data was generated from a kelp specimen Alaria esculenta. Reads were assembled using SPAdes. Scaffolds from SPAdes assembly were further filtered for plastid sequences using BLAST+.
Ghost plastid annotations are included in .gb format.
Alignments used in hyphy analyses are also included. Alignments are by gene, with concatenated alignments based on functional group. Concatenated gene alignments were masked using Gblocks.