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Novel Sequence Discovery by Subtractive Genomics
Published on: January 25, 2019
The complete chloroplast genome sequence of Dendrobium thyrsiflorum (Orchidaceae) and its phylogenetic analysis
Bin Zhu1, Xi Luo1, Zuomin Gao1
1School of Life Sciences, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
Dendrobium thyrsiflorum Rchb.f., a native species to China, is widely used as an important garden flower and a traditional Chinese medicine. Herein, the complete chloroplast (cp) genome of D. thyrsiflorum was deciphered by high-throughput sequencing. The cp genome exhibited a typical quadripartite cycle of 151,686 bp in length, comprising of a pair of inverted repeats (IRa and IRb) of 26,293 bp which were intersected by a large single copy (LSC) region of 84,749 bp and a small single copy (SSC) region of 14,351 bp. A total of 126 genes were de novo assembled in this cp genome, including 78 protein genes, 40 tRNA genes and 8 rRNA genes. Among these genes, 86 genes (22 tRNAs and 64 coding genes) were single copy, the rest were two-copy genes, and the average of GC content of the whole genome is 37.55%. Phylogenetic trees showed that the D. thyrsiflorum was closely related to D. devonianum. This study provides molecular information for future evolution, genetic and molecular biology studies of Dendrobium.
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