The complete chloroplast genome of Zanthoxylum acanthopodium DC. (Rutaceae) and its phylogenetic analysis

Abstract

We sequenced the complete chloroplast genome of Zanthoxylum acanthopodium via high-throughput sequencing technology, and analyzed its structural characteristics and phylogenetic relationships. The chloroplast exhibits a genome length of 158,473 bp, including a pair of inverted repeat regions (IRa and IRb) of 27,369 bp, a small single-copy (SSC) region of 17,629 bp and a large single-copy (LSC) region of 85,570 bp. The annotation analysis identified 112 genes, containing 78 protein-coding genes, 30 tRNA genes and 4 rRNA genes. The phylogenetic analysis showed that Z. acanthopodium was closely related to Z. piperitum and Z. tragodes.

Keywords:

• complete chloroplast genome
• Zanthoxylum acanthopodium
• characteristics
• phylogenetic analysis

Acknowledgments

We thank Dequan Zhang in Dali University for affording plant material of molecular experiments.

Disclosure statement

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

Data availability statement

The data supporting the finding of this study is available in GenBank. The accession number is MT795653: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/MT795653.

Additional information

Funding

This study was supported by Natural Science Foundation of Chongqing Science and Technology Bureau [grant number cstc2015jcyjA10110] and the Open Foundation of Engineering Laboratory of Chongqing for Green Planting and Deep Processing of Genuine Medicinal Materials in Three Gorges Reservoir Area.