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The complete chloroplast genome sequence of Morus mongolica and a comparative analysis within the Fabidae clade
1The Key Sericultural Laboratory of Shaanxi, Ankang University, Shaanxi, 725099, China. weiqing_kongwq@126.com.
Abstract:
The complete nucleotide sequence of the Morus mongolica chloroplast (cp) genome was reported and characterized in this study. The cp genome is a circular molecule of 158,459 bp containing a pair of 25,678 bp IR regions, separated by small and large single-copy regions of 19,736 and 87,363 bp, respectively. The number and relative positions of the 114 unique genes (80 PCGs, 30 tRNAs, and 4 rRNA genes) are almost identical to Morus indica cp genome. Further detailed comparative analyses revealed one hypervariable region, which is responsible for 88% of the total variation, and 64 indel events between two individuals. There are 78 simple sequence repeats (SSRs) in M. mongolica cp genome, in which 58 of them are mononucleotide repeats. Comparative analysis with M. indica cp genome indicated 22 SSRs with length polymorphisms and 1 SSR with nucleotide content polymorphism. The phylogenetic analysis of 60 PCGs from 62 cp genomes provided strong support for the monophyletic, single origin of Fabidae (N2-fixing) clade.
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