Characterization of the complete chloroplast genome of the Tangut monkshood Aconitum tanguticum (Ranunculales: Ranunculaceae)

Abstract

The Tangut monkshood (Aconitum tanguticum) is a perennial herb with high medicinal values. Here, its chloroplast genome was assembled from Illumina sequencing reads. The circular genome is 157,114 bp long with an A + T-biased nucleotide composition, and comprises a pair of inverted repeat (IR) regions (26,255 bp), separated by a large single-copy (LSC) region (87,559 bp) and a small single-copy (SSC) region (17,045 bp). It encodes a total of 112 gene species, with 19 of them being completely or partially duplicated and 18 of them harboring one or two introns. Phylogenetic analysis recovered two major clades of the genus Aconitum.

Keywords:

• Iterative mapping
• phylogenetic analysis
• plastid genome
• Tangut monkshood
• Aconitum tanguticum

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 GenBank of NCBI at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov, reference number MT430949.

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Funding

This work was supported by the Major Science and Technology Projects in Qinghai Province[2020-SF-A3-2], the National Natural Science Foundation of China [31860585], the the Major Science and Technology Projects in Xining City [2019-Z-09], and the State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Medicine Research and Development [2015DQ870717].