Complete chloroplast sequence of Fenerivia ghesquiereana (Annonaceae): a rare and endemic tree from Madagascar

Yixi Wang; Tijana Cvetković; Amy N A Aritsara; Angelo D A Carrion; Joeri S Strijk

doi:10.1080/23802359.2020.1855604

Complete chloroplast sequence of Fenerivia ghesquiereana (Annonaceae): a rare and endemic tree from Madagascar

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2021 Jan 16;6(1):158-160. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2020.1855604.

Authors

Yixi Wang¹, Tijana Cvetković¹, Amy N A Aritsara^{2

3}, Angelo D A Carrion¹, Joeri S Strijk^{1

4}

Affiliations

¹ Biodiversity Genomics Team, Guangxi Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Conservation, Guangxi University, Nanning, China.
² Plant Ecophysiology and Evolution Group, College of Forestry, Guangxi University, Nanning, China.
³ Département Forestière et Environnement, Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Agronomiques, Université d'Antananarivo, Antananarivo, Madagascar.
⁴ Pha Tad Ke Botanical Garden, Alliance for Conservation Tree Genomics, Luang Prabang, Laos.

Abstract

Fenerivia ghesquiereana (Cavaco & Keraudren) R.M.K. Saunders (Annaonaceae) is a rare and endemic tree restricted to the warm tropical forests of Madagascar, a major global hotspot for biodiversity. Species in the genus are mostly restricted to a thin belt along the eastern edge of the island and remain under intense pressure due to deforestation for logging, mining and slash-and-burn agriculture ('tavy'), despite national pledges to curb biodiversity losses and increase park protection to combat illegal logging and poaching. Here we report the complete chloroplast genome sequence of this species to support ongoing efforts to complete the (sub-)tribal classification of the family. The chloroplast sequence of F. ghesquiereana was 160,194 bp in length, including two inverted repeat regions of 26,093 bp, a large single-copy region of 89,041 bp and a small single-copy region of 18,967 bp. A total of 160 genes were annotated, of which 115 are coding, 37 are tRNA genes, and eight are rRNA genes. The overall GC content was 39%; this was higher in the IRs (43.4%) when compared to the LSC (30.7%) and the SSC (33.9%) regions. A Maximum Likelihood phylogenetic analysis with a selection of other plastomes in Annonaceae placed F. ghesquiereana as sister to Meiogyne hainanensis (Merr.) in subfamily Malmeoideae.

Keywords: Annonaceae; Fenerivia ghesquieriana; Malmeoideae; complete chloroplast genome; phylogenomics.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by a grant from the Provincial Government of Guangxi Province (“100 Talents” Program; recruitment of overseas talents for colleges and universities in Guangxi) to JSS.