The first complete chloroplast genome of Hylomecon japonica and its phylogenetic position within Papaveraceae

Yonghua Zhang; Joongku Lee; Xuelian Liu; Zhongshuai Sun

doi:10.1080/23802359.2019.1573125

The first complete chloroplast genome of Hylomecon japonica and its phylogenetic position within Papaveraceae

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2019 Jul 12;4(2):2349-2350. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2019.1573125.

Authors

Yonghua Zhang¹, Joongku Lee², Xuelian Liu³, Zhongshuai Sun⁴

Affiliations

¹ College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, China.
² Department of Environment and Forest Resources, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, South Korea.
³ College of Life Science, Tonghua Normal University, Tonghua, China.
⁴ Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Evolutionary Ecology and Conservation, Taizhou University, Taizhou, China.

Abstract

Hylomecon japonica, a widespread species in East Asia, is a valuable horticultural and medicinal plant. Here, we obtained the first complete sequence of the H. japonica chloroplast genome. The complete cp genome was 160,011 bp long, with a large single-copy region (LSC, 88,165 bp) and a small single copy region (SSC, 18,378 bp) separated by a pair of inverted repeats (IRs, 26,734 bp). The cp genome contained 114 unique genes, including 80 protein-coding genes, 30 tRNA genes, and four rRNA genes. The phylogenetic analysis indicated that H. japonica is close related with Coreanomecon hylomeconoides.

Keywords: Coreanomecon hylomeconoides; phylogenomics; plastome; spring ephemeral plant.