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Comparative genomics and systematics of Betaphycus, Eucheuma, and Kappaphycus (Solieriaceae: Rhodophyta) based on mitochondrial genome

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Betaphycus Doty, Eucheuma J. Agardh, and Kappaphycus Doty (Solieriaceae, Gigartinales) are the three most commercially important seaweed genera that produce carrageenan. In the present study we provide mitogenomes of Betaphycus gelatinus, Eucheuma denticulatum and Kappaphycus alvarezii. The mitogenomes of these three species contain a set of 50 genes, including 24 protein-coding genes, 2 rRNA genes, and 24 tRNA genes. The mitogenome length ranges from 25,198 bp (Kappaphycus alvarezii) to 25,327 bp (Eucheuma denticulatum). As compared with the previous published mitogenomes of Florideophyceae species, only the species in Gelidiaceae and Pterocladiaceae have smaller mitochondrial genome size than these reported here. At the junction of two transcription units, we identified a stem-loop structure in six representative Gigartinales species, which is presumed to play an important role in the replication and transcription of mitochondrial genes. In Gigartinales the difference in gene order among the four Solieriaceae (B. gelatinus, E. denticulatum, K. alvarezii, K. striatus) and other two Gigartinales species (Chondrus crispus and Mastocarpus papillatus) can be explained by inversion of two tRNA genes. Collinearity analysis of the 12 mitochondrial genomes of Florideophyceae showed considerable sequence synteny across all the species compared, with the exception of a highly variable region between atp6 and rpl20 genes. Phylogenetic analyses based on 21 shared mitochondrial genes showed that the four Solieriaceae species form one clade (Solieriaceae clade). Within this clade, B. gelatinae is basal relative to the other three species. The genus Kappaphycus is more closely related to Eucheuma than Betaphycus.

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This work was supported by the China-ASEAN Maritime Cooperation Fund, by Public Science and Technology Research Funds Projects of Ocean (Grant No. 201405020), and by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.

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  1. Yue Li and Na Liu contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Laboratory of Genetics and Breeding of Marine Organisms, College of Marine Life Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266003, China

    Yue Li, Na Liu, Lei Zhang, Hongxin Yin, Yuemei Jin, Haiyang Wang, Cui Liu, Shan Chi & Tao Liu

  2. CAS Key Laboratory of Genome Sciences and Information, Beijing Key Laboratory of Genome and Precision Medicine Technologies, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China

    Xumin Wang & Guoliang Wang

  3. Hainan Academy of Ocean and Fisheries Sciences, Haikou, 570203, China

    Xianming Tang

  4. Faculty of Fisheries and Marine Science, Jenderal Soedirman University, Purwokerto, 53122, Indonesia

    Maria Dyah Nur Meinita

  5. Qingdao Haida BlueTek Biotechnology Co., LTD, Qingdao, 266000, China

    Shan Chi

  6. Qilu University of Technology, Shandong Academy of Sciences, Jinan, China

    Jing Zhang

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Li, Y., Liu, N., Wang, X. et al. Comparative genomics and systematics of Betaphycus, Eucheuma, and Kappaphycus (Solieriaceae: Rhodophyta) based on mitochondrial genome. J Appl Phycol 30, 3435–3443 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10811-018-1450-1

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