The complete chloroplast genome of Magnolia sinostellata (Magnoliaceae), a rare and endangered species of China

Zhang-Xiu Yao; Jian-Fen Yang; Yang Liu; Shan-Shan Dong; Hong Wu; Shou-Zhou Zhang

doi:10.1080/23802359.2018.1481794

The complete chloroplast genome of Magnolia sinostellata (Magnoliaceae), a rare and endangered species of China

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2018 Jul 10;3(2):742-743. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2018.1481794.

Authors

Zhang-Xiu Yao^{1

2}, Jian-Fen Yang², Yang Liu^{2

3}, Shan-Shan Dong², Hong Wu¹, Shou-Zhou Zhang²

Affiliations

¹ College of Life Sciences, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China.
² Fairy Lake Botanical Garden Shenzhen & Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China.
³ BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China.

Abstract

Magnolia sinostellata Chiu & Chen is a rare and endangered species endemic to subtropical China. Here we assembled and annotated the complete chloroplast (cp) genome of M. sinostellata. The chloroplast genome of M. sinostellata is 160,076 bp in length and encodes 79 protein-coding genes, 30 transfer RNA (tRNA) genes and four ribosomal RNA (rRNA) genes. The maximum-likelihood (ML) phylogenetic analysis result reveals that M. sinostellata is most closely related to M. biondii.

Keywords: Magnolia sinostellata; chloroplast genome; phylogenetic analysis.