The Complete Chloroplast Genome of Tetraselmis desikacharyi (Chlorodendrophyceae) and Phylogenetic Analysis

Abstract

Tetraselmis desikacharyi is a marine alga, known as an important plankton for aquaculture as a feed organism. However, the genomic study on this class is rare. Here, we present a complete Chlorodendrophyceae chloroplast genome of T. desikacharyi, belonging to Chlorodendrophyceae with a full length of 149,934bp, characterized by a very small single-copy (SSC) region without any genes and a large inverted repeat (IR) region. A maximum-likelihood (ML) phylogenetic analysis was performed using three kinds of data comprising 50 protein-coding genes, which placed the Chlorodendrophyceae as a deep-diverging lineage of the core Chlorophyta.\n\nT. desikacharyi, characterized by their intense green colored chloroplast, is important for aquaculture as a feed organism, and for studying plankton growth cycles due to their fast growth rate (Arora et al., 2013; Norris et al., 1980). However, only two chloroplast genomes have been published in ...