Phylogenetic analysis of the complete chloroplast genome of Gracilaria vermiculophylla

Abstract

In this study, we sequenced and annotated the complete chloroplast genome of Gracilaria vermiculophylla (GenBank accession number: MN853882). The total length of the chloroplast genome of G. vermiculophylla is 180,262 bp, including 191 protein-encoding genes, 30 tRNA genes and 3 rRNA genes. The phylogenetic tree, which is based on core genes, shows that G. vermiculophylla clustered into the Gracilaria clade and has close genetic relationships with algae Gracilaria tenuistipitata and Gracilaria changii. These data will enable a better understanding of the phylogenetic status of G. vermiculophylla.

Keywords:

• Chloroplast genome
• Gracilaria vermiculophylla
• phylogenetic analysis
• Gracilaria tenuistipitata
• Gracilaria changii

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Data availability statement

The data that support the findings of this study are openly available in NCBI GenBank database at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ with the accession number is MN853882.

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Funding

This work was financially supported by the National Key R&D Program of China [2016YFC1402104, 2016YFC1402106, and 2019YFC1407902]. The funders did not play a role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or manuscript preparation.