The complete mitochondrial genome of Pyropia pulchra (Bangiophyceae, Rhodophyta)

Abstract

Pyropia pulchra (Hollenberg) S.C. Lindstrom & Hughey is a foliose seaweed in Bangiales order distributed in North America. We assembled the complete mitochondrial genome sequence of Pyropia pulchra (33,190 bp), and annotated 26 protein-coding genes, 24 transfer RNAs, and 2 ribosomal RNAs. We analyzed a maximum likelihood tree using conserved 23 mitochondrial genes from Bangiales species. The mitochondrial phylogeny of Bangiales species shows a strong monophyletic relationship of genus Pyropia, and the taxonomic position of P. pulchra within the genus.

Keywords:

• Pyropia pulchra
• mitochondrial genome
• phylogenetic analysis

Acknowledgements

We thank Kathy Ann Miller (Herbarium, UC at Berkeley, USA) to provide the herbarium sample, and a special support from Hwan Su Yoon (Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea).

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 at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/, reference number “MT588076”.

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Funding

This research was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MSIT) [2020R1C1C1010193].