The complete chloroplast genome of an Antarctic moss Syntrichia filaris (Müll.Hal.) R.H. Zander

Seok Cheol Kim; Mi Young Byun; Ji Hee Kim; Hyoungseok Lee

doi:10.1080/23802359.2019.1627945

The complete chloroplast genome of an Antarctic moss Syntrichia filaris (Müll.Hal.) R.H. Zander

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2019 Jul 12;4(2):2303-2304. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2019.1627945.

Authors

Seok Cheol Kim¹, Mi Young Byun², Ji Hee Kim¹, Hyoungseok Lee^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Polar Life Sciences, Korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon, South Korea.
² Unit of Polar Genomics, Korea Polar Research Institute, Incheon, South Korea.
³ Polar Science, University of Science and Technology, Incheon, South Korea.

Abstract

Syntrichia filaris is one of the common mosses in the northern maritime Antarctic. In this study, we determined the complete chloroplast genome of S. filaris (GenBank accession number MK852705) to provide a genetic resource for phylogenetic study on Bryophytes. It is of 136,227 bp length, containing 8 ribosomal RNA (rRNA), 37 transfer RNA, and 85 protein-coding genes. The chloroplast genome structure and gene order were similar to other bryophytes. Phylogenetic tree based on combined amino acids sequences of 72 chloroplast genes common in S. filaris, 7 Bryophyta, 1 Anthocerotophyta, and 2 Marchantiophyta, was congruent with the traditional position of Pottiales in Bryophytes.

Keywords: Antarctic; Pottiales; Syntrichia filaris; chloroplast genome.