The complete chloroplast genome sequence of Helixanthera parasitica (Loranthaceae)

Bingbing Liu; Yancai Shi; Ying Zhang

doi:10.1080/23802359.2019.1660280

The complete chloroplast genome sequence of Helixanthera parasitica (Loranthaceae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2019 Sep 6;4(2):2804-2805. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2019.1660280.

Authors

Bingbing Liu¹, Yancai Shi², Ying Zhang¹

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Loess Plateau, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, China.
² Guangxi Key Laboratory of Plant Conservation and Restoration Ecology in Karst Terrain, Guangxi Institute of Botany, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guilin, China.

Abstract

The complete chloroplast genome of Helixanthera parasitica from China was analyzed using next-generation sequencing. The plastome of H. parasitica is a typical quadripartite structure with a length of 125,021 bp, which contained inverted repeats (IR) of 22,752 bp separated by a large single-copy (LSC) and a small single copy (SSC) of 73,151 bp and 6,366 bp, respectively. The cpDNA contains 105 genes, comprising 67 protein-coding genes, 30 tRNA genes, and 8 rRNA genes. The overall GC content of the plastome is 36.5%. Phylogenetic analysis showed that H. parasitica was closely related to the Tolypanthus maclurei.

Keywords: Helixanthera parasitica; chloroplast genome; phylogenetic analysis.