The complete chloroplast genome sequence of Litsea cubeba

Qinghua Wang; Huangyijun Wang; Yunqin Li; Xiaolong Yuan; Ting Luo; Yi Wang

doi:10.1080/23802359.2020.1768961

The complete chloroplast genome sequence of Litsea cubeba

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2020 May 27;5(3):2193-2194. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2020.1768961. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Qinghua Wang¹, Huangyijun Wang², Yunqin Li¹, Xiaolong Yuan¹, Ting Luo¹, Yi Wang¹

Affiliations

¹ Laboratory of Forest Plant Cultivation and Utilization, Yunnan Academy of Forestry & Grassland Science, Kunming, Yunnan, China.
² College of Forestry, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian, China.

Abstract

The first complete chloroplast genome (cpDNA) sequence of Litsea cubeba was determined from Illumina HiSeq pair-end sequencing data in this study. The cpDNA is 152,725 bp in length, contains a large single-copy region (LSC) of 93,673 bp, and a small single-copy region (SSC) of 18,924 bp, which were separated by a pair of inverted repeats (IR) regions of 20,064 bp, each. The genome contains 126 genes, including 82 protein-coding genes, 8 ribosomal RNA genes, and 36 transfer RNA genes. The further phylogenomic analysis showed that L. cubeba and Litsea garrettii clustered in a clade in Lauraceae family.

Keywords: Illumina sequencing; Litsea cubeba; chloroplast; phylogenetic analysis.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the Project of State Special Research Funds of Forestry Sector for Public Welfare [201104053] and the Central Government Finance Forestry Science and Technology Popularization Project [Yun2017TG10, Yun2019TG04].