Comparison of the Complete Eragrostis pilosa Chloroplast Genome with Its Relatives in Eragrostideae (Chloridoideae; Poaceae).

ABSTRACT: Eragrostis of the tribe Eragrostideae is a taxonomically complex genus, because of its polyploid nature and the presence of similar morphological characters among its species. However, the relationship between these morphologically indistinguishable species at the genomic level has not yet been investigated. Here, we report the complete chloroplast genome of E. pilosa and compare its genome structures, gene contents, simple sequence repeats (SSRs), sequence divergence, codon usage bias, and Kimura 2-parameter (K2P) interspecific genetic distances with those of other Eragrostideae species. The E. pilosa chloroplast genome was 134,815 bp in length and contained 132 genes and four regions, including a large single-copy region (80,100 bp), a small single-copy region (12,66

SUBMITTER: Somaratne Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6918254 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature