The complete chloroplast genome of the invasive fern Lygodium microphyllum (Cav.) R. Br

Graham A McCulloch; James P Hereward; Ellen C Lake; Melissa C Smith; Matthew F Purcell; Gimme H Walter

doi:10.1080/23802359.2018.1483755

The complete chloroplast genome of the invasive fern Lygodium microphyllum (Cav.) R. Br

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2018 Jul 10;3(2):746-747. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2018.1483755.

Authors

Graham A McCulloch^{1

2}, James P Hereward¹, Ellen C Lake³, Melissa C Smith³, Matthew F Purcell⁴, Gimme H Walter¹

Affiliations

¹ School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
² Department of Zoology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
³ United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Invasive Plant Research Laboratory, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA.
⁴ United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Australian Biological Control Laboratory, Brisbane, Australia.

Abstract

The Old World climbing fern, Lygodium microphyllum, is a rapidly spreading environmental weed in Florida, United States. We reconstructed the complete chloroplast genome of L. microphyllum from Illumina whole-genome shotgun sequencing, and investigate the phylogenetic placement of this species within the Leptosporangiate ferns. The chloroplast genome is 158,891 bp and contains 87 protein-coding genes, four rRNA genes, and 27 tRNA genes. Thirty-three genes contained internal stop codons, a common feature in Leptosporangiate fern genomes. The L. microphyllum genome has been deposited in GenBank under accession number MG761729.

Keywords: Chloroplast genome; Lygodium microphyllum; Old World climbing fern; environmental weed.