Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources (Jul 2018)

The complete chloroplast genome of the invasive fern Lygodium microphyllum (Cav.) R. Br.

  • Graham A. McCulloch,
  • James P. Hereward,
  • Ellen C. Lake,
  • Melissa C. Smith,
  • Matthew F. Purcell,
  • Gimme H. Walter

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/23802359.2018.1483755
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 2
pp. 746 – 747

Abstract

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The Old World climbing fern, Lygodium microphyllum, is a rapidly spreading environmental weed in Florida, United States. We reconstructed the complete chloroplast genome of L. microphyllum from Illumina whole-genome shotgun sequencing, and investigate the phylogenetic placement of this species within the Leptosporangiate ferns. The chloroplast genome is 158,891 bp and contains 87 protein-coding genes, four rRNA genes, and 27 tRNA genes. Thirty-three genes contained internal stop codons, a common feature in Leptosporangiate fern genomes. The L. microphyllum genome has been deposited in GenBank under accession number MG761729.

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