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Complete chloroplast genome of the threatened Rhoiptelea chiliantha (Juglandaceae s.l.)

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Rhoiptelea chiliantha is the only species of traditionally defined family Rhoipteleaceae which is confined to S Guizhou, SE Yunnan, N and W Guangxi of China as well as N Vietnam, and is evaluated as vulnerable (VU) in “The IUCN Red List Threatened Species” and “Chinese Species Red List”. Here, we de novo assembled the complete chloroplast (cp) genome of R. chiliantha using Illumina sequencing data for the first time. The whole cp genome was 161,692 bp in length consisting of a pair of inverted repeat (IRa and IRb) regions of respectively 25,335 bp, a small single-copy region of 23,659 bp and a large single-copy region of 89,039 bp. The genome encoded 116 unique genes including 85 protein-coding genes, 27 tRNA genes and four rRNA genes. Phylogenetic analysis based on 21 complete cp genome sequences indicates that R. chiliantha is sister to the traditionally defined walnut family (Juglandaceae s.s.) and supports to merge Rhoipteleaceae into Juglandaceae s.l.

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This work was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Guizhou Province [(2016)1049].

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  1. Key Laboratory of Economic Plants and Biotechnology, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, 650201, China

    Yan-Fei Geng & Jian-Chu Xu

  2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

    Yan-Fei Geng

  3. Institute of Ecology and Geobotany, Yunnan University, Kunming, 650091, China

    Yan-Fei Geng

  4. College of Life Sciences, Guizhou University, Guiyang, 550025, China

    Guo-Xiong Hu

  5. College of Marine Science and Biological Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266042, China

    Shuo Wang

  6. World Agroforestry Centre East and Central Asia, Kunming, 650201, China

    Jian-Chu Xu

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Geng, YF., Hu, GX., Wang, S. et al. Complete chloroplast genome of the threatened Rhoiptelea chiliantha (Juglandaceae s.l.). Conservation Genet Resour 11, 317–319 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12686-018-1021-4

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