The complete chloroplast genome of Aconitum austrokoreense Koidz. (Ranunculaceae), an endangered endemic species in Korea

Ji-Eun Choi; Goon-Bo Kim; Chae-Eun Lim; Hee-Ju Yu; Jeong-Hwan Mun

doi:10.1080/23802359.2016.1219644

The complete chloroplast genome of Aconitum austrokoreense Koidz. (Ranunculaceae), an endangered endemic species in Korea

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2016 Sep 1;1(1):688-689. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2016.1219644.

Authors

Ji-Eun Choi¹, Goon-Bo Kim², Chae-Eun Lim¹, Hee-Ju Yu³, Jeong-Hwan Mun²

Affiliations

¹ National Institute of Biological Resources, Incheon, Korea.
² Department of Bioscience and Bioinformatics, Myongji University, Yongin, Korea.
³ Department of Life Science, The Catholic University of Korea, Bucheon, Korea.

Abstract

We determined the complete chloroplast genome sequences of Aconitum austrokoreense Koidz., an endangered endemic species in Korea. The chloroplast DNA is 155,682 bp in length and encodes 37 tRNAs, 8 rRNAs, and 86 protein-coding genes. Phylogenetic analysis and sequence comparison of protein-coding genes with those in other Ranunculaceae chloroplast DNAs showed that the chloroplast genome of A. austrokoreense is closely related to that of A. chiisanense and large sequence variations identified in rps16, matK, and rpl20 are specific to these two species.

Keywords: Aconitum austrokoreense; chloroplast genome; endemic; sequence variation.