Complete chloroplast genome sequence of Heteroplexis sericophylla (Asteraceae), a rare and vulnerable species endemic to China

Yancai Shi; Ying Zhang; Bingbing Liu

doi:10.1080/23802359.2019.1680323

Complete chloroplast genome sequence of Heteroplexis sericophylla (Asteraceae), a rare and vulnerable species endemic to China

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2019 Oct 23;4(2):3719-3720. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2019.1680323.

Authors

Yancai Shi¹, Ying Zhang², Bingbing Liu²

Affiliations

¹ Guangxi Institute of Botany, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guilin, China.
² Institute of Loess Plateau, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, China.

Abstract

Heteroplexis sericophylla (Asteraceae) is a rare and vulnerable species endemic to China. Here, we report and characterize the complete chloroplast genome sequence of H. sericophylla based on Illumina paired-end sequencing data. The complete plastid genome was 152,629 bp in length, which contained two inverted repeats (IRs) of 24,954 bp separated by a large single-copy (LSC) and a small single-copy (SSC) of 84,427 bp and 18,294 bp, respectively. The cpDNA contains 131 genes, comprising 85 protein-coding genes, 37 tRNA genes, 8 rRNA genes and one processed pseudogene. The overall GC content of the plastome is 37.3%. The phylogenetic analysis of 17 selected chloroplast genomes demonstrated that H. sericophylla was close to congeneric species H. incana.

Keywords: Heteroplexis; chloroplast genome; phylogenetic analysis.