Toward phylogenomics of Lauraceae: The complete chloroplast genome sequence of Litsea glutinosa (Lauraceae), an invasive tree species on Indian and Pacific Ocean islands

Complete chloroplast genome sequence of a subtropical tree, Parasassafras confertiflorum (Lauranceae)

“…), with a length of 152,555 bp, was 65 bp and195 bp smaller than that of Litsea glutinosa (152,618 bp, KU382356) and Laurus nobilis (152,750 bp, KY085912). It was also 7 bp and 113 bp larger than that of the Lindera benzoin (152,478 bp, MH220730) and Neolitsea sericea (152,442 bp, MF939341) (Hinsinger and Strijk 2017;Song et al 2017a;Zhao et al 2018). The lengths of the inverted repeats (IRs), small single-copy (SSR) region, and large single-copy (LSC) region in the plastome of P. confertiflorum was 20,079 bp, 18,793 bp, and 93,604 bp, respectively.…”

“…The complete plastid genome sequence of P. confertiflorum and the other sequenced Lauraceae taxa including Actinodaphne trichocarpa, Alseodaphne gracilis, A. huanglianshanensis, A. semecarpifolia, Cinnamomum camphora, C. kanehirae, C. micranthum, C. verum, Laurus nobilis, Lindera benzoin, L. communis, L. glauca, L. latifolia, L. megaphylla, L. metcalfiana, L. nacusua, L. obtusiloba, L. robusta, Litsea glutinosa, Machilus balansae, M. pauhoi, M. thunbergii, M. yunnanensis, Nectandra angustifolia, Neolitsea sericea, Persea americana, Phoebe chekiangensis, P. omeiensis, P. sheareri, P. zhennan, and Sassafras tzumu (Song et al 2015(Song et al , 2016(Song et al , 2017a(Song et al , 2017b(Song et al , 2018Hinsinger and Strijk 2017;Wu et al 2017;Zhao et al 2018), formed the base to perform a phylogenetic analysis, with Endiandra globosa and E. discolor as outgroup. A maximum likelihood analysis (Tamura et al 2011) yielded a tree topology with 39-100% bootstrap (BS) values at each node.…”

The plastome sequence of Laurus azorica (Seub.) Franco, an endemic tree species of the Azores islands

“…However, despite their abundance and widespread occurrence, Lauraceae remain poorly known and difficult to identify, primarily due to the absence of clear morphological and molecular diagnostic characters (Werff andGeography 2001, Little et al, 2009). Plastome sequencing can therefore increase the identification success by providing a comprehensive set of data (Hinsinger and Strijk 2017).…”

Construction of the chloroplast genome of Litsea coreana var. sinensis and phylogeny of Lauraceae

“…The longest contig was found to be a part of cp genome of L. coreana var. sinensis by BLAST search, and the highest homology cp genome comes from species L. glutinosa (Hinsinger and Strijk 2017); thus, L. glutinosa cp genome (GenBank: KU382356) was used as reference for construction of the whole cp genome of L. coreana var. sinensis by using MITObim v1.7 (Hahn et al 2013).…”