The complete chloroplast genome of Menispermum dauricum (Menispermaceae, Ranunculales)

Faiza Hina; Zhenyu Jin; Zhaoping Yang; Pan Li; Chengxin Fu

doi:10.1080/23802359.2018.1501306

The complete chloroplast genome of Menispermum dauricum (Menispermaceae, Ranunculales)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2018 Aug 17;3(2):913-914. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2018.1501306.

Authors

Faiza Hina¹, Zhenyu Jin¹, Zhaoping Yang², Pan Li¹, Chengxin Fu¹

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory of Conservation Biology for Endangered Wildlife of the Ministry of Education, and Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany and Biodiversity, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
² College of Life Sciences, Tarim University, Alaer, China.

Abstract

Menispermum dauricum is a woody liana with great medicinal value. In the current study, we assembled the first chloroplast (cp) genome of M. dauricum. The whole chloroplast genome is 158,623 bp in length, with one large copy region (LSC: 88,879 bp), a small single copy region (SSC: 20,644 bp), and two inverted repeats (IR: 24,550 bp). The cp genome contains 114 unique genes with 80 protein-coding genes, 30 tRNA genes, and four rRNA genes. In our phylogeny of Ranunculales, Papaveraceae is found to be the basal group of Ranunculales and M. dauricum is sister to Stephania japonica.

Keywords: Menispermaceae; Menispermum dauricum; Papaveraceae; Ranunculales.