The complete chloroplast genome of Sycopsis sinensis Oliver

Abstract

Sycopsis sinensis is a species of the genus Sycopsis Oliv in the Hamamelidaceae, and it is a native broadleaved evergreen woody plant species in China. Here, we sequenced, assembled, and analyzed the complete chloroplast (cp) genome of S. sinensis. The chloroplast genome of S. sinensis was 159,093 bp with 38.02% GC content, including a large single-copy (LSC) region of 87,841 bp, a small single-copy (SSC) region of 18,792 bp and two equal length inverted repeat (IR) regions of 26,230 bp. And, it contained 131 genes, including 37 tRNA genes, 8 rRNA genes, and 86 mRNA genes. Phylogenetic analysis strongly shows that S. sinensis has a close relationship with Distylium macrophyllum, whose posterior probability is 1.0.

Keywords:

• Chloroplast genome
• Sycopsis sinensis
• Hamamelidaceae
• phylogenetic analysis

Acknowledgments

We would like to thank Doctor Yao Li from Nanjing Forestry University for his help with fieldwork; Lei Xie and Lu Wang from Nanjing Forestry University for their assistant with data analyses.

Disclosure statement

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

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Funding

The work was be funded by Special foundation for Excellent Young Teachers and Principals Program of Jiangsu Province, China.