Characterization of the complete chloroplast genome of S. B. Liang (Tiliaceae).

The complete chloroplast genome of an endangered endemic species in China was sequenced with Illumina HiSeq 2000 platform. It was a typical quadruple structure as other plants of with 162,803 bp in length, including a large single copy (LSC: 91,114 bp) region and a small single copy (SSC: 20,379 bp) which were separated by a pair of inverted repeats (IRa, b: 25,655 bp) region. The overall GC content is 36.5%. A total of 129 genes was annotated which contained 84 protein-coding genes, 37 tRNA genes, and 8 rRNA genes. ML Phylogenetic analysis compared with 33 expressed chloroplast genomes revealed that was a sister to other species.