Complete chloroplast genome of Ulva compressa (Ulvales: Ulvaceae)

Lihua Xia; Yutao Qin; Jinlin Liu; Haofei Zhang; Lingjuan Wu; Song Gao; Minmin Zhuang; Jing Xia; Shuang Zhao; Yang Xu; Meilin Fu; Yuqing Sun; Yichao Tong; Jianheng Zhang; Peimin He

doi:10.1080/23802359.2020.1860696

Complete chloroplast genome of Ulva compressa (Ulvales: Ulvaceae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2021 Mar 11;6(3):720-722. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2020.1860696.

Authors

Lihua Xia^{1

2}, Yutao Qin^{1

2}, Jinlin Liu^{1

3}, Haofei Zhang^{1

2}, Lingjuan Wu⁴, Song Gao⁴, Minmin Zhuang³, Jing Xia³, Shuang Zhao³, Yang Xu³, Meilin Fu³, Yuqing Sun³, Yichao Tong³, Jianheng Zhang³, Peimin He³

Affiliations

¹ East China Sea Environmental Monitoring Center, State Oceanic Administration, Shanghai, China.
² Ministry of Natural Resources, Key Laboratory of Marine Ecological Monitoring and Restoration Technology, Shanghai, China.
³ College of Marine Ecology and Environment, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China.
⁴ North China Sea Marine Forecasting Center, State Oceanic Administration, Qingdao, China.

Abstract

Ulva compressa is one of the causal green macroalgae in many countries. In this study, complete chloroplast genome sequence of U. compressa was reported, and the total length of this species was 94,226 bp (GenBank accession number MT916929). The overall base composition of chloroplast genome was A (37.2%), T (37.0%), C (12.7%) and G (13.1%), and the percentage of A + T (74.2%) was higher than C + G (25.8%). U. compressa chloroplast genome encoded 90 genes, including 63 protein-coding genes, 23 transfer RNAs genes, and 4 ribosomal RNAs genes. The maximum likelihood phylogenetic analysis showed that U. compressa is the closest sister species of U. linza. This study will be helpful to understand the genetic diversity of Ulva species.

Keywords: Ulva compressa; green tide macroalgae chloroplast genome phylogenetic analysis.

Grants and funding

This study was financially supported by National Key R&D Program of China [2016YFC1402103], the Project of Key Laboratory of Marine Ecological Monitoring and Restoration Technologies, M.N.R. [202008], National Natural Science Foundation of China [41576163], Shanghai Sailing Program [17YF1407900], Luo Zhaorao Science and Innovation Fund [A1200400201328].