The complete chloroplast genome sequence of Amentotaxus yunnanensis (Taxaceae)

Jun Zhang; Ze-Peng Cao; Shuo Li; Meng-Meng Liu; Xiao-Wei Huo

doi:10.1080/23802359.2019.1637293

The complete chloroplast genome sequence of Amentotaxus yunnanensis (Taxaceae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2019 Jul 12;4(2):2477-2478. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2019.1637293.

Authors

Jun Zhang¹, Ze-Peng Cao¹, Shuo Li², Meng-Meng Liu^{2

3}, Xiao-Wei Huo¹

Affiliations

¹ College of Pharmaceutical Science, Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Quality Control of Hebei Province, Hebei University, Baoding, China.
² College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Hebei University, Baoding, China.
³ Institute of Bioinformatics and Medical Engineering, School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Jiangsu University of Technology, Changzhou, China.

Abstract

The complete chloroplast genome sequence of Amentotaxus yunnanensis has been defined in this study. The genome is 138,604 bp in length and one of the large inverted repeats found till date. The overall GC content of the genome is 35.1%. The A. yunnanensis chloroplast genome contains 118 unique genes, including 81 protein-coding genes, 31 tRNA genes, and 4 rRNA genes. Nine protein-coding genes and 6 tRNA contain a single intron, while another species (ycf3) has a couple of introns. A neighbor-joining phylogenetic analysis suggested that A. yunnanensis is closely related to A. argotaenia and A. formosana within the Taxaceae family.

Keywords: Amentotaxus yunnanensis; chloroplast genome; mutation; phylogenetic analysis.