The complete chloroplast genome of Antarctic pearlwort, Colobanthus quitensis (Kunth) Bartl. (Caryophyllaceae)

Abstract

We determined the complete chloroplast DNA sequence of an extremophile plant, <em>Colobanthus quitensis</em> (Antarctic pearlwort), by de <em>novo</em> assembly based on the sequencing results from Illumina MiSeq platform (Illumina Inc., San Diego, CA). The chloroplast genome of <em>C. quitensis</em> (NCBI accession no. KT737383) is a sequence of 151 276 bp long with a typical quadripartite structure composed of a large single copy region, a small single copy region and a pair of inverted repeats. The overall GC content of <em>C. quitensis</em> genome is 36.7% and it has 66 simple sequence repeats. It contains a total 112 genes including 78 protein coding genes, 30 tRNA genes, and four rRNA genes.