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Abstract
The complete chloroplast genome of Chloranthus japonicus, an important traditional Chinese herbal medicine, was sequenced and characterized in this study. The genome size is 158,640 bp in length with 38.9% GC content. Two inverted repeats of 26,149 bp are separated by a large single-copy region (87,724 bp) and a small single-copy region (18,618 bp). The genome contains 131 individual genes, including 86 protein-coding genes, 37 tRNA genes and 8 rRNA genes. Eighteen genes contain one or two introns.
Acknowledgements
We thank Prof. Xianming Chen at Washington State University for critical reading of this manuscript.
Declaration of interest
The authors report no conflicts of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of this article.
This research was financially supported by the National Natural Science Funds of China (31101608 and 81102758), New Scientific and Technological Star Program of Shaanxi Province (2012KJXX-44 and 2013KJXX-71), Scientific Research Program Funded by Shaanxi Provincial Education Department (2013JK0833).