Chloroplast genome and nuclear loci data for 71 Medicago species
Filipe de Sousa,
Yann J.K. Bertrand,
Alexander Zizka,
Patrik Cangrén,
Bengt Oxelman,
Bernard E. Pfeil
Affiliations
Filipe de Sousa
cE3c-Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes & CHANGE-Global Change and Sustainability Institute, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, 1749-016 Lisbon, Portugal; Corresponding author at: cE3c-Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes & CHANGE-Global Change and Sustainability Institute, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, 1749-016 Lisbon, Portugal.
Yann J.K. Bertrand
Institute of Botany, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, CZ-252 43 Průhonice, Czech Republic
Alexander Zizka
Department of Biology, Philipps-University Marburg, Karl-von-Frisch-Strape 8, 35043 Marburg, Germany
Patrik Cangrén
Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Medicinaregatan 7B, Göteborg 413 90, Sweden
Bengt Oxelman
Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Medicinaregatan 7B, Göteborg 413 90, Sweden
Bernard E. Pfeil
Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Medicinaregatan 7B, Göteborg 413 90, Sweden
We present a dataset containing nuclear and chloroplast sequences for 71 species in genus Medicago (Fabaceae), as well as for 8 species in genera Melilotus and Trigonella. Sequence data for a total of 130 samples was obtained with high-throughput sequencing of enriched genomic DNA libraries targeting 61 single-copy nuclear genes from across the Medicago truncatula genome. Chloroplast sequence reads were also generated, allowing for the recovery of chloroplast genome sequences for all 130 samples. A fully-resolved phylogenetic tree was inferred from the chloroplast dataset using maximum-likelihoood methods. More than 80% of accepted Medicago species are represented in this dataset, including three subspecies of Medicago sativa (alfalfa). These data can be further utilised for phylogenetic analyses in Medicago and related genera, but also for probe and primer design and plant breeding studies.
