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Mitogenome Announcement

The complete chloroplast genome of Eurya loquaiana (Pentaphylacaceae)

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Pages 3293-3294 | Received 19 Jul 2020, Accepted 19 Aug 2020, Published online: 03 Sep 2020

Abstract

The complete chloroplast (cp) genome of Eurya loquaiana Dunn. has been reported in this study. The cp genome has a total length of 157,218 bp with the typical quadripartite structure, containing two inverted repeats (IRs) of 25,883 bp separated by a large single-copy (LSC) region of 87,248 bp and a small single-copy (SSC) region of 18,204 bp. The whole cp genome of E. loquaiana contains 128 genes, including 83 protein-coding genes, 37 tRNAs genes, and 8 rRNAs. The phylogenetic result showed that E. loquaiana is sister to E. alate.

Eurya Thunberg (Pentaphylacaceae) contains about 130 species worldwide, and mainly distributed in subtropical, tropical Asia and pacific islands (Min and Bartholomew Citation2007). The plants of this genus are usually evergreen shrubs with small fragrant flowers (Min and Bartholomew Citation2007). They are important nectariferous plants with certain ornamental and medicinal values (Chen Citation2010; Song et al Citation2017). In this study, the chloroplast (cp) genome of E. loquaiana Dunn. was first reported. To confirm the relationship within Pentaphylacaceae, the phylogenetic tree was reconstructed with the complete cp genome sequences, which will provide useful information for the further study of this genus.

The fresh and clean leaves of E. loquaiana were collected from Beibei district of Chongqing, China (N29°49′49.36″, E106°22′46.58″, 856 m). The voucher specimen (yanyanao20191001) was deposited in the herbarium of Southwest University (SWCTU). The total genomic DNA was extracted and used for sequencing on Illumina HiSeq 4000 platform at the Beijing Novogene Bioinformatics Technology Co., Ltd. (Nanjing, China). To obtain the complete cp genome, SPAdes (Bankevich et al. Citation2012) was used to de novo reassemble the raw data. The complete genome sequence was annotated using PGA (Qu et al. Citation2019) with manual adjustments. The sequence of cp genome was deposited in the GenBank (accession numbers MT038209).

The cp genome of E. loquaiana is 1,57,218 bp in size with the typical quadripartite structure of angiosperms, containing a couple of inverted repeats (IRs) of 25,883 bp separated by a large single-copy (LSC) region of 87,248 bp and a small single-copy (SSC) region of 18,204 bp. The total GC content of the whole sequence is 37.3%. The cp genome of E. loquaiana contains 128 genes, including 83 protein-coding genes (PCGs), 37 transfer RNA (tRNA) genes, and 8 ribosomal RNA (rRNA) genes. Sixteen genes including 5 PCGs (ndhB, rpl23, rps12, rps7, and ycf2), 7 tRNA genes (trnA-UGC, trnI-CAU, trnI-GAU, trnL-CAA, trnN-GUU, trnR-ACG, and trnV-GAC) and 4 rRNA genes (rrn16, rrn23, rrn4.5, and rrn5) are duplicated. In addition, among the 112 unique genes, 14 have one intron (atpF, ndhA, ndhB, petB, petD, rpl16, rpoC1, rps16, trnA-UGC, trnG-UCC, trnI-GAU, trnK-UUU, trnL-UAA, and trnV-UAC), and 3 have two introns (clpP, rps12, and ycf3).

To determine the phylogenetic position of E. loquaiana within Pentaphylacaceae, the whole cp genome sequences from seven species of Pentaphylacaceae and Sladenia celastrifolia from Sladeniaceae were downloaded from GenBank (). The sequences were aligned with MAFFT version 7.0 (Katoh and Standley Citation2013). The maximum-likelihood (ML) and Bayesian inference (BI) phylogenetic trees were reconstructed using RAxML (Stamatakis Citation2014) and MrBayes (Ronquist et al. Citation2012). The ML and BI analyses generated the same tree topology (). The result showed that the E. loquaiana forms a clade with E. alate, which is sister to the clade formed by Euryodendron excelsum. The complete cp genome of E. loquaiana reported here will provide molecular basis for the further studies on the phylogeny analysis of the genus.

Figure 1. Phylogenetic tree based on nine complete chloroplast genome sequences. Numbers at nodes correspond to ML bootstrap percentages (1000 replicates) and Bayesian inference (BI) posterior probabilities. All the sequences are available in GenBank, with the accession numbers listed right to their scientific names.

Figure 1. Phylogenetic tree based on nine complete chloroplast genome sequences. Numbers at nodes correspond to ML bootstrap percentages (1000 replicates) and Bayesian inference (BI) posterior probabilities. All the sequences are available in GenBank, with the accession numbers listed right to their scientific names.

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 MT038209.

Additional information

Funding

This work was financially supported by National Natural Sciences Foundation of China [Grant No. 31600491] and Specimen Platform of NSII and the Teaching Specimen Sub-platform of China [2005DKA21403–JK].

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