Characterization of the complete chloroplast genome of Sargassum fusiforme and its phylogenomic position within phaeophyceae

Yonghua Zhang; Shengqin Wang; Weiguo Qian; Yijian Shi; Nan Li; Xiufeng Yan; Huixi Zou; Mingjiang Wu

doi:10.1080/23802359.2019.1671246

Characterization of the complete chloroplast genome of Sargassum fusiforme and its phylogenomic position within phaeophyceae

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2019 Sep 26;4(2):3258-3259. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2019.1671246.

Authors

Yonghua Zhang¹, Shengqin Wang¹, Weiguo Qian^{1

2}, Yijian Shi³, Nan Li¹, Xiufeng Yan¹, Huixi Zou¹, Mingjiang Wu¹

Affiliations

¹ College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, China.
² Key Laboratory of Saline-Alkali Vegetation Ecology Restoration, Ministry of Education (Northeast Forestry University), Harbin, China.
³ College of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, China.

Abstract

Sargassum fusiforme is an important economic seaweed in East Asia. In this study, we characterized the complete chloroplast genome sequence of S. fusiforme using PacBio long-read sequencing technology. It had a circular mapping molecular with the length of 124,286 bp, with a large single-copy region (LSC, 73,437 bp) and a small single copy region (SSC, 40,131 bp) separated by a pair of inverted repeats (IRs, 5,359 bp). The cp genome contained 173 genes including 139 protein-coding, 6 rRNA, and 28 tRNA genes. The phylogenomic analysis indicated that S. fusiforme is closely related to S. thunbergii.

Keywords: PacBio sequencing; Sargassum fusiforme; phylogenomics; plastome.