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Mitogenome Announcement

The complete chloroplast genome of Juglans cathayensis var. formosana (Hayata), an endemic in China

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Pages 1802-1803 | Received 18 Mar 2020, Accepted 27 Mar 2020, Published online: 11 Apr 2020

Abstract

Juglans cathayensis var. formosana (Hayata) is a precious Juglans tree endemic to China. In this study, we reported its complete chloroplast genome assembled from Illumina pair-end sequencing data. The completed plastome was 159,967 bp in length, including a large-single copy (LSC) region of 89,320 bp, a small-single copy (SSC) region of 18,175 bp, and a pair of inverted repeat (IR) regions of 26,236 bp. The overall GC content of the genome was 36.12%, and the corresponding values of the LSC, SSC, and IR regions were 33.71, 29.79, and 42.43%, respectively. A total of 131 genes were annotated, including 87 protein-coding genes, 36 tRNA genes, and 8 rRNA genes. Phylogenetic analysis strongly supported that J. cathayensis var. formosana and J. cathayensis formed a sister clade to J. mandshurica and J. hopeiensis. The newly characterized complete chloroplast genome of J. cathayensis var. formosana will provide essential data for further investigation of this precious species.

Juglans cathayensis var. formosana (Hayata), belonging to the genus Juglans (Juglandaceae), is a precious deciduous broad-leaved tree species endemic to Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Anhui, Jiangxi, Fujian and Taiwan provinces of China. It is considered to be the varietas of J. cathayensis, which can be distinguished by the number of pads on suture. Although complete chloroplast genome sequence of several species from Juglandaceae have previously been unraveled (Hu et al. Citation2016; Dong et al. Citation2017; Hu, Woeste et al. Citation2017; Hu, Yan et al. Citation2017; Yan et al. Citation2017; Ye et al. Citation2018), fundamental genetic information about J. cathayensis var. formosana remains less. In this study, we reported the complete chloroplast genome sequence of J. cathayensis var. formosana based on Illumina pair-end sequencing data, which will provide informative data both for the conservation of this species and for the phylogeny of genus Juglans.

Leaves of J. cathayensis var. formosana were collected from Wuyi Mountains, Fujian Province (27°44′06ʺN, 117°40′13ʺE). The specimen was stored at the State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding (specimen code WysYou-1). The total genomic DNA was extracted using modified CTAB protocol (Wang et al. Citation2015) and sequenced using the Illumina Hiseq X Ten (Illumina, CA, USA). The raw reads were filtered using Trimmomatic (Bolger et al. Citation2014). Clean reads were first aligned to J. cathayensis (NC_033893.1) and then assembled using ABySS v2.1.5 (Jackman et al. Citation2017). The genome was annotated using plann 1.1.2 (Huang and Cronk Citation2015), then adjusted and confirmed with Apollo v2.3.1 (Lee et al. Citation2009). The annotated genomic sequence was then deposited into GenBank with accession number MT012630.

The chloroplast genome of J. cathayensis var. formosana was a quadripartite circular with 159,967 bp, which comprised of a large-single copy (LSC) region of 89,320 bp and a small single copy (SSC) region of 18,175 bp, separated by two inverted repeat (IR) regions of 26,236 bp, respectively. The GC content of the total genome was 36.12%, whereas the IR region had a higher GC content (42.43%) than LSC (33.71%) and SSC (29.79%). The chloroplast genome encoded 131 genes, including 87 protein-coding genes, 36 tRNA genes, and 8 rRNA genes.

To identify the phylogenetic position of J. cathayensis var. formosana, 13 published chloroplast genomes of Juglandaceae (J. cathayensis, J. mandshurica, J. hopeiensis, J. regia, J. sigillata, J. major, J. nigra, Carya illinoinesis, C. kweichowensis, Annamocarya sinensis, Cyclocarya paliurus and Platycarya strobilacea) and 4 species from Betulaceae (Betula nana, Alnus glutinosa, Ostrya chinensis and O. rehderiana) as outgroups were obtained from NCBI and aligned using MAFFT v7.313 (Katoh and Standley Citation2013). The neighbor-joining (NJ) tree was constructed with RAxML v8.2.11 (Stamatakis Citation2014) and the branch support was estimated with 1000 bootstrap replications (). The results revealed that J. cathayensis var. formosana and J. cathayensis formed a sister clade to J. mandshurica and J. hopeiensis with 100% bootstrap support.

Figure 1. The neighbor-joining (NJ) tree of Juglans cathayensis var. formosana (Hayata). Bootstraps values were given next to the nodes.

Figure 1. The neighbor-joining (NJ) tree of Juglans cathayensis var. formosana (Hayata). Bootstraps values were given next to the nodes.

Disclosure statement

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

Additional information

Funding

This study was supported by the State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding Research Project [TGB2015008].

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