The complete plastid genome sequence of Quercus acuta (Fagaceae), an evergreen broad-leaved oak endemic to East Asia

Won-Bum Cho; Eun-Kyeong Han; In-Su Choi; Myounghai Kwak; Jung-Hyun Kim; Bo-Yun Kim; Jung-Hyun Lee

doi:10.1080/23802359.2020.1866449

The complete plastid genome sequence of Quercus acuta (Fagaceae), an evergreen broad-leaved oak endemic to East Asia

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2021 Feb 3;6(2):320-322. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2020.1866449.

Authors

Won-Bum Cho¹, Eun-Kyeong Han², In-Su Choi³, Myounghai Kwak⁴, Jung-Hyun Kim⁵, Bo-Yun Kim⁵, Jung-Hyun Lee¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biology Education, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Republic of Korea.
² Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Republic of Korea.
³ School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.
⁴ Biological and Genetic Resources Utilization Division, National Institute of Biological Resources, Incheon, Republic of Korea.
⁵ Plant Resources Division, National Institute of Biological Resources, Incheon, Republic of Korea.

Abstract

We are reporting the complete plastid genome (plastome) of Quercus acuta, an evergreen broad-leaved oak endemic to East Asia. This species is important for maintaining the warm-temperate evergreen forest biome in East Asia. The Q. acuta plastome is 160,522 base pairs (bp) long, with two inverted repeat (IR) regions (25,839 bp each) that separate a large single copy (LSC) region (90,199 bp) and a small single copy (SSC) region (18,645 bp). The phylogenetic tree shows that Quercus acuta is closely related to Quercus sichourensis with strong bootstrap support.

Keywords: Complete plastid genome; Cyclobalanopsis; Quercus acuta; evergreen broad-leaved oak; phylogenetic analysis.

Grants and funding

This research was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) [no. 2019R1F1A1057589].