title: Complete plastid genome sequence of goosegrass (Eleusine indica) and comparison with other Poaceae.
abstract: Eleusine indica, also known as goosegrass, is a serious weed in at least 42 countries. In this paper we report the complete plastid genome sequence of goosegrass obtained by de novo assembly of paired-end and mate-paired reads generated by Illumina sequencing of total genomic DNA. The goosegrass plastome is a circular molecule of 135,151bp in length, consisting of two single-copy regions separated by a pair of inverted repeats (IRs) of 20,919 bases. The large (LSC) and the small (SSC) single-copy regions span 80,667 bases and 12,646 bases, respectively. The plastome of goosegrass has 38.19% GC content and includes 108 unique genes, of which 76 are protein-coding, 28 are transfer RNA, and 4 are ribosomal RNA. The goosegrass plastome sequence was compared to eight other species of Poaceae. Although generally conserved with respect to Poaceae, this genomic resource will be useful for evolutionary studies within this weed species and the genus Eleusine.
authors.affiliation: Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Science, Auburn University, AL 36849, USA.
authors.forename: Hui
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, Auburn University, AL 36849, USA.
authors.forename: Nathan
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Hall
authors.affiliation: Department of Crop, Soil and Environmental Science, Auburn University, AL 36849, USA. Electronic address: jsm0010@auburn.edu.
authors.forename: J Scott
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: McElroy
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology and Evolution of Marine Organisms, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Villa Comunale, 80121 Napoli, Italy; BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA.
authors.forename: Elijah K
authors.initials: EK
authors.lastname: Lowe
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, Auburn University, AL 36849, USA.
authors.forename: Leslie R
authors.initials: LR
authors.lastname: Goertzen
mesh_terms: D017124:Conserved Sequence; D018742:DNA, Chloroplast / Q000235:genetics; D018744:DNA, Plant / Q000235:genetics; D031748:Eleusine / Q000235:genetics*; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D054628:Genome, Chloroplast; D018745:Genome, Plant; D018895:Microsatellite Repeats; D010802:Phylogeny; D006109:Poaceae / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics*; D013045:Species Specificity
chemical_list: D018742:DNA, Chloroplast; D018744:DNA, Plant
keywords: Chloroplast genome; Goosegrass; Next-generation sequencing; Plastomes comparation; Simple sequence repeat