Characterization of the Complete Chloroplast Genome Sequences of Four Zanthoxylum L. Species (Sapindales: Rutaceae) from the Caribbean, Madagascar, the Mascarene Islands, and the South Pacific

Niklas Reichelt; Jun Wen; Claudia Pätzold; Marc S Appelhans

doi:10.1128/MRA.00399-21

Characterization of the Complete Chloroplast Genome Sequences of Four Zanthoxylum L. Species (Sapindales: Rutaceae) from the Caribbean, Madagascar, the Mascarene Islands, and the South Pacific

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2021 May 27;10(21):e0039921. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00399-21. Epub 2021 May 27.

Authors

Niklas Reichelt^{1

2}, Jun Wen², Claudia Pätzold^{1

3}, Marc S Appelhans^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Systematics, Biodiversity and Evolution of Plants, Albrecht-von-Haller-Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany.
² Department of Botany, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA.
³ Department of Botany and Molecular Evolution, Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Abstract

Zanthoxylum is a genus of woody plants in the Rutaceae family distributed pantropically, with some species extending to temperate regions in East Asia and North America. Here, we present the complete chloroplast genome sequences of four species, two of them critically endangered, endemic to tropical islands.