The complete plastome of Gymnotheca chinensis (Saururaceae) and its phylogenetic analysis

Lei Jin; Jin Yang; Changkun Liu; Mengling He; Hanjing Yan

doi:10.1080/23802359.2019.1667908

The complete plastome of Gymnotheca chinensis (Saururaceae) and its phylogenetic analysis

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2019 Sep 23;4(2):3202-3203. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2019.1667908.

Authors

Lei Jin^{1

2}, Jin Yang^{2

3}, Changkun Liu², Mengling He^{1

4}, Hanjing Yan^{1

4}

Affiliations

¹ College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
² Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China.
³ School of Life Science, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan, China.
⁴ Key Laboratory of State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine for Production & Development of Cantonese Medicinal Materials, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.

Abstract

The complete plastome of Gymnotheca chinensis, an important medicinal herb, was firstly elucidated and analyzed in this study. The plastome is 161,621 bp in size, which comprises of one large single-copy (LSC) region and one small single-copy (SSC) region of 89,291 bp and 18,592 bp, respectively, separated by a pair of IR regions of 26,869 bp each. It encodes a total of 132 genes, including 87 protein-coding genes, 37 tRNA, and 8 rRNA. The phylogeny robustly supports that G. chinensis is sister to the clade including Piper kadsura, Piper cenocladum, Saruma henryi, Asarum sieboldii.

Keywords: Gymnotheca chinensis; complete plastome; phylogenetic analysis.