The complete chloroplast genome of Epimedium xichangense Y. J. Zhang (Berberidaceae)

Yuanyue Wang; Xiang Liu; Cheng Zhang; Chaoqun Xu; Fengmei Suo; Guoan Shen; Baolin Guo

doi:10.1080/23802359.2020.1721353

The complete chloroplast genome of Epimedium xichangense Y. J. Zhang (Berberidaceae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2020 Feb 3;5(1):1035-1037. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2020.1721353.

Authors

Yuanyue Wang¹, Xiang Liu^{1

2}, Cheng Zhang¹, Chaoqun Xu¹, Fengmei Suo¹, Guoan Shen¹, Baolin Guo¹

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Medicinal Plant Development, Chinese Academy of Medical Science, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.
² Chongqing Academy of Chinese Materia Medica, Chongqing, China.

Abstract

Epimedium xichangense, a critically endangered herb with limited population, mainly distributes in Sichuan province, China. In our study, we obtained the complete chloroplast genome of E. xichangense with a length of 158,955 bp, including a large single copy region of 86,478 bp, small single copy region of 17,027 bp, and a pair of inverted repeat regions of 27,725 bp. The GC content in the whole chloroplast genome of E. xichangense is 38.81%. Among the 112 unique genes in the circular genome, 30 tRNA, four rRNA and 78 protein-coding genes were successfully annotated. We constructed the Maximum likelihood (ML) tree with 26 species, and came to the conclusion that E. xichangense was phylogenetically closely related to E. acuminatum and E. chlorandrum.

Keywords: Berberidaceae; Chloroplast genome; Epimedium xichangense.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the CAMS Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences (CIFMS) [2017-12 M-3-013], the National Natural Science Foundation of China [81473302], the Chongqing Science and Technology Burea [cstc2018jcyjAX0316, cstc2019jxjl-jbky0017], and the Traditional Chinese Medicine Science and the Technology Projects of Chongqing Health and Family Planning Commission [ZY201802117].