Complete chloroplast genome of an endangered plant, Alseodaphne Hainanensis

Yong Yang; Yu-Kai Chen; Qing Chen

doi:10.1080/23802359.2019.1623731

Complete chloroplast genome of an endangered plant, Alseodaphne Hainanensis

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2019 Jul 10;4(2):2169-2170. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2019.1623731.

Authors

Yong Yang¹, Yu-Kai Chen¹, Qing Chen²

Affiliations

¹ Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Ecology of Tropical Islands, College of Life Sciences, Hainan Normal University, Haikou, China.
² Bawangling National Nature Reserve, Hainan Province, Changjiang, China.

Abstract

Alseodaphne hainanensis is an endangered species with inhabiting dense forest along valleys, and it is one of the representative species of tropical rain forest in Hainan Island. In this paper, we reported and characterized the complete chloroplast genome sequence of the species assembled from short reads generated by Illumina sequencing. The size of chloroplast was 152,829 bp, a pair of inverted repeats (IRs) separating a large single copy and a small single copy, the size of IRs, LSC and SSC were 20,036 bp, 93,872 bp and 18,885 bp, respectively. A total of 129 genes were predicted, including 81 protein-coding genes, 38 tRNA, 8 rRNA, and 2 pseudogene. Phylogenetic analysis confirmed the position of A. hainanensis within the order Laurales.

Keywords: Alseodaphne hainanensis; chloroplast genome; endangered plant; phylogenetic analysis.