The complete chloroplast genome of the fern Asplenium tenerum (Aspleniaceae)

Abstract

Plastid genomes are useful markers in resolving plant phylogenetic relationships for various taxonomic groups. Here, we sequenced and de novo assembled the complete plastid genome sequence of the fern Asplenium tenerum Forst. (Aspleniaceae, Polypodiales) using the genome skimming data. The newly generated plastid genome is conserved in structure and gene content compared with that of closely related species. Plastid phylogenetic analysis of Polypodiales ferns recovered a robust phylogeny, supporting the close relationship of A. tenerum with Asplenium prolongatum.

Keywords:

• Plastome
• Asplenium tenerum
• Polypodiales

Acknowledgments

We thank Na Li and Zhiming Liu from Fairylake Botanical Garden for their technical support in computer software.

Disclosure statement

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

Data availability statement

The complete plastid genome of Asplenium tenerum newly generated in current study have been submitted to GenBank under the accession number of MT700551. The Asplenium tenerum genome sequencing reads have been deposited in the Short Read Achieve (SRA) database of NCBI under the accession number of SRR9897626. The data matrix used for current phylogenetic reconstruction can be accessed from the Figshare database under DOI: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.12853019.v2.

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Funding

This project is funded by the National Natural Science Foundation [NSFC-31600171] and Shenzhen Fairy Lake Botanical Garden Science Foundation [FLSF-2019-02].