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. 2021 Jan 27;6(1):282-284.
doi: 10.1080/23802359.2020.1863166.

The complete chloroplast genome of Scurrula chingii (W.C. Cheng) H.S. Kiu (Loranthaceae), a hemiparasitic shrub

Manru Li  1   2 , Yifei Zhang  1   2 , Yuanjie Li  1   2 , Ling Zhang  1   2
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The complete chloroplast genome of Scurrula chingii (W.C. Cheng) H.S. Kiu (Loranthaceae), a hemiparasitic shrub

Manru Li et al. Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. .

Abstract

Scurrula chingii (W.C. Cheng) H.S. Kiu is a stem hemiparasite of the genus Scurrula in the family Loranthaceae distributed in southwest China and northern Vietnam. Here, we report and characterize the complete plastid genome sequence of S. chingii to provide genomic resources useful for the phylogenetic studies of Santalales. The plastome of S. chingii is 122,764 bp in length, consisted of a large single-copy region (70,726 bp), a small single-copy region (6,091 bp), and a pair of inverted repeat regions (22,974 bp). The GC content of the whole plastome is 37.2%. It contains 109 genes, including 69 CDS (protein-coding genes), eight rRNAs, and 32 tRNAs. The alignment of 14 species complete chloroplast genomes of Loranthaceae was implemented and a phylogenetic tree was constructed using maximum-likelihood (ML) method, which revealed that S. chingii clustered with Scurrula parasitica and Taxillus thibetensis as a monophyletic group.

Keywords: Scurrula chingii; chloroplast genome; hemiparasite; phylogenetic analysis.

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Maximum-likelihood phylogenetic tree based on 15 complete cp genomes ofLoranthaceae. The outgroup is Erythropalum scandens. Numbers above nodes indicate bootstrap support valueswith 1,000 replicates.
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