The complete chloroplast genome of Gymnospermium kiangnanense (Berberidaceae): an endangered species endemic to Eastern China

Zhaoping Yang; Zhengkang Peng; Hongwei Zhang; Joongku Lee; Xuelian Liu; Chengxin Fu

doi:10.1080/23802359.2018.1483760

The complete chloroplast genome of Gymnospermium kiangnanense (Berberidaceae): an endangered species endemic to Eastern China

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2018 Jul 3;3(2):713-714. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2018.1483760.

Authors

Zhaoping Yang^{1

2}, Zhengkang Peng¹, Hongwei Zhang³, Joongku Lee⁴, Xuelian Liu⁵, Chengxin Fu²

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory of Conservation Biology for Endangered Wildlife of the Ministry of Education, Laboratory of Systematic & Evolutionary Botany and Biodiversity, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
² College of Life Sciences, Tarim University, Alaer, China.
³ Administration of Zhejiang Qingliangfeng National Natural Reserve, Hangzhou, China.
⁴ Department of Environment and Forest Resources, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, South Korea.
⁵ College of Life Science, Tonghua Normal University, Tonghua, China.

Abstract

Gymnospermium kiangnanense is an endangered species in the family Berberidaceae. In this study, we assembled the chloroplast (cp) genome of G. kiangnanense and reconstructed the phylogenetic tree of Berberidaceae based on the complete cp genome. The cp genome of G. kiangnanense is 160,136 bp in length, comprising a pair of inverted repeat (IR) regions (26,424 bp) separated by a large single-copy (LSC) region (87,580 bp) and a small single-copy (SSC) region (19,708bp). The genome encodes 111 unique genes, consisting of 77 different protein-coding genes, 30 transfer RNA, and 4 ribosomal RNA genes, with 18 duplicated genes in the inverted repeats. Phylogenetic analysis indicates that G. kiangnanense is sister to G. microrrhynchum, and the Gymnospermium clade is closely related with Nandina.

Keywords: Berberidaceae; Gymnospermium kiangnanense; chloroplast genome; phylogenetic tree.