The complete chloroplast genome sequence of Hydrocotyle sibthorpioides (Apiales: araliaceae)

Long Ge; Liqun Shen; Qinyi Chen; Ximin Li; Lin Zhang

doi:10.1080/23802359.2016.1241676

The complete chloroplast genome sequence of Hydrocotyle sibthorpioides (Apiales: araliaceae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2017 Jan 16;2(1):29-30. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2016.1241676.

Authors

Long Ge¹, Liqun Shen², Qinyi Chen², Ximin Li³, Lin Zhang²

Affiliations

¹ Changshu Science and Technology Innovation Park, Changshu, China.
² College of Biomedical Engineering and Instrument Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
³ Changshu Qiushi Technology Co. Ltd, Changshu, China.

Abstract

Hydrocotyle sibthorpioides Lam. is a widespread and important Chinese medicinal plant. In this study, we have sequenced the complete chloroplast genome of H. sibthorpioides, which is 152,880 bp in length with large (LSC 84,064 bp) and small (SSC 18,690 bp) single-copy regions separated by a pair of inverted repeats (IRs 25,063 bp) and contains 113 unique genes with 17 genes duplicated in the IR making a total of 130 genes. The phylogenetic analysis strongly supports the position of H. sibthorpioides and indicates it belongs to the Araliaceae family, potential to facilitate a better understanding of population and phylogenetic studies in Apiales.

Keywords: Apiales; Hydrocotyle sibthorpioides; complete chloroplast genome; phylogenetic analysis.