The complete chloroplast genome of Paeonia anomala subsp. veitchii

Gang Zhang; Jing Sun; Yimin Li; Dawei Zhang; Liang Peng; Zhishu Tang; Linchun Shi

doi:10.1080/23802359.2015.1137838

The complete chloroplast genome of Paeonia anomala subsp. veitchii

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2016 Mar 24;1(1):191-192. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2015.1137838.

Authors

Gang Zhang^{1

2}, Jing Sun¹, Yimin Li¹, Dawei Zhang³, Liang Peng¹, Zhishu Tang¹, Linchun Shi²

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory for Chinese Medicine Basis & New Drugs Research, College of Pharmacy and Shaanxi Provincial, Shaanxi University of Chinese Medicine, Xi'an, China.
² Institute of Medicinal Plant Development, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.
³ School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Institute of Bioinformatics and Medical Engineering, Jiangsu University of Technology, Changzhou, China.

Abstract

The complete chloroplast genome of Paeonia anomala subsp. veitchii., an important traditional Chinese herbal medicine, was sequenced and characterized in this study. The genome size is 152 682 bp in length with 38.42% GC content. Two inverted repeats (25 653 bp) are separated by a large single copy (84 398 bp) and a short single copy (16 978 bp). The genome contains 130 individual genes, including 85 protein-coding genes, 37 tRNA genes and 8 rRNA genes. Twenty-one genes contain one or two introns. Phylogenetic tree analysis of P. anomala subsp. veitchii and other 12 species belonging to Pentapetalae using MEGA6 with the neighbour-joining algorithm revealed that the chloroplast genome was clustered in subfamily Paeoniaceae.

Keywords: Chloroplast genome; Paeonia anomala subsp. veitchii; phylogenetic analysis.