The complete chloroplast genome of Saccharina latissima

Abstract

Saccharina latissima is a brown algal (class Phaeophyceae) belonging to the family Laminariaceae. We reported the de novo assembly and the annotation of the complete chloroplast genome of S. latissima. The circled cpDNA of S. latissima is 130,619 bp in length with a large and a small single-copy region (LSC and SSC), separated by two copies of inverted repeats (IRa and IRb). The genome contains 139 protein-coding genes (PCGs), 3 kinds of ribosomal RNAs (rRNAs), and 29 transfer RNAs (tRNAs) genes that are typical of Saccharina cpDNA. A phylogenetic analysis strongly supported the close phylogenetic affinity of S. latissima and Saccharina japonica. The complete cpDNA of S. latissima will provide valuable molecular data for further analysis of evolutionary and conservation genetic resources.

Keywords:

• Saccharina latissima
• complete chloroplast genome
• Illumina sequencing

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 NCBI GenBank with accession MT151382 or China National GeneBank DataBase (CNGBdb) https://db.cngb.org/search/sequence/N_000000748.1/.

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Funding

This work was supported by National Key Research and Development Program of China [2018YFD0900703], Major Scientific and Technological Innovation Project of Shandong Provincial Key Research and Development Program [2019JZZY020706], China Agriculture Research System (CARS-50); Marine S&T Fund of Shandong Province for Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology (Qingdao) [2018SDKJ0406-3]; Financial Fund of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, P.R. China [NFZX2018]; Special Scientific Research Funds for Central Nonprofit Institutes, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences [2020TD27]; Central Public-interest Scientific Institution Basal Research Fund [YSFRI, CAFS, NO. 20603022020019] Taishan Scholars Funding; Talent Projects of Distinguished Scientific Scholars in Agriculture and Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation, China [ZR2017MD025].