The complete chloroplast genome of Alsophila latebrosa, a common and widespread tree fern (Cyatheaceae)

Zhen Wang; Ruonan Wang; Limin Lin; Ruisi Liu; Sirui Ma; Yongfeng Hong; Ziqing He; Yingjuan Su; Ting Wang

doi:10.1080/23802359.2021.1942262

The complete chloroplast genome of Alsophila latebrosa, a common and widespread tree fern (Cyatheaceae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2021 Jun 22;6(7):2084-2085. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2021.1942262.

Authors

Zhen Wang¹, Ruonan Wang¹, Limin Lin¹, Ruisi Liu¹, Sirui Ma¹, Yongfeng Hong¹, Ziqing He¹, Yingjuan Su^{1

2}, Ting Wang³

Affiliations

¹ School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
² Research Institute of Sun Yat-sen University in Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China.
³ College of Life Sciences, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China.

Abstract

Alsophila latebrosa is a common and widespread tree fern of Cyatheaceae. Its complete chloroplast genome is first assembled and reported with 155,724 bp in length, including a large single copy (LSC) region of 85,800 bp, a small single copy (SSC) region of 21,620 bp, and a pair of inverted repeats (IRs) of 24,152 bp. The genome has 133 genes, including 89 protein-coding genes, 33 tRNA genes, eight rRNA genes and three pseudogenes. Maximum likelihood approach was employed to construct the phylogenetic relationship among ten ferns including A. latebrosa. The result showed that A. latebrosa was most related to A. costularis as a sister group with 100% bootstrap support. The complete chloroplast genome sequences of A. latebrosa will provide valuable genomic information to further illuminate phylogenetic classification of Cyatheacea.

Keywords: Alsophila latebrosa; chloroplast genome; phylogenetic analysis.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [31670200, 31770587, 31872670, and 32071781], Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation [2021A1515010911], and Project of Department of Science and Technology of Shenzhen City, Guangdong, China [JCYJ20190813172001780].