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Characterization of the complete plastid genome of Quercus tarokoensis

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Quercus tarokoensis is an endemic species to Taiwan, China. The complete plastid genome of Q. tarokoensis was assembled from Illumina pair-end sequence reads. The whole plastome was 161,355 bp in length and presented a quadripartite structure consisting of two copies of inverted repeat (IR) regions (25,860) separated by a large single copy region (90,602 bp) and a small single copy region (19,033 bp). The plastome of Q. tarokoensis encoded a total of 134 genes, including 86 protein-coding genes (79 PCG species), 40 tRNA genes (33 tRNA species), and 8 rRNA genes (4 rRNA species). The overall GC content of Q. tarokoensis plastome is 36.8%. A maximum likelihood phylogenetic analysis based on 33 complete plastomes revealed that Q. tarokoensis was collectively sister to a clade of (Quercus variabilis, (Quercus dolicholepis, Quercus baronii)) with high support.

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We are grateful to Ching-I Peng (Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica), Chih-Kai Yang (National Taiwan University) for assistance collecting materials. This research was financially supported by the Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University (No. IRT1174) and the Key Laboratory Program Founded by the Education Department of Shaanxi Province (12JS083).

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    Yanci Yang, Tao Zhou, Jianhua Zhao & Guifang Zhao

  2. Middle School of Xi’an Electronic Science and Technology, Xi’an, China

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Yang, Y., Zhou, T., Zhu, J. et al. Characterization of the complete plastid genome of Quercus tarokoensis . Conservation Genet Resour 10, 191–193 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12686-017-0796-z

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