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The first complete chloroplast genome of Pteris vittata (Pteridaceae), an arsenic hyperaccumulating fern
Hairuo Zeng1, Mingyu Li1, Ruixiang Xu1
1School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Abstract:
It is the first report on complete chloroplast genome of Pteris vittata, an arsenic hyperaccumulating fern. Its genome size is 154,130 bp, with a typical circular structure including a large single-copy (LSC) (82,623 bp) and a small single-copy (SSC) (20,957 bp) regions separated by a pair of inverted repeats (25,275 bp each). The plastome encodes 132 genes, including 87 protein-coding genes, 35 tRNA genes, eight rRNA genes, and two pseudogenes. The overall Guanine+Cytosine (GC) content is 41.7% and GC content in the IR regions is higher than in the LSC and SSC regions. Maximum likelihood (ML) tree indicated that P. vittata was clustered with Ceratopteris richardii.
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