Table 1.

Comparative analysis of the chloroplast genomes among four families of Fagales, including three different accessions of Morella rubra (Myricaceae) sequenced for this study.

	M. rubra-GZMZ	M. rubra-FJZS	M. rubra-YNML	Juglans regia	Castanea mollissima	Ostrya rehderiana
Total cpDNA size	159,478	159,568	159,586	160,537	160,799	159,347
Length of large single copy (LSC) region	88,683	88,809	88,772	90,059	90,432	88,177
Length of inverted repeat (IR) region	26,014	26,015	26,069	26,033	25,686	26,131
Length of small single copy (SSC) region	18,767	18,706	18,676	18,412	18,995	18,908
Coding size	91,795	91,239	91,818	90,810	90,465	91,041
Intron size	20,647	20,667	20,705	20,712	19,957	20,640
Spacer size	47,036	47,662	47,063	49,015	50,377	47,666
Total GC content (%)	36.10	36.10	36.10	36.20	36.80	36.50
LSC	33.80	33.80	33.80	33.60	34.60	34.30
IR	42.60	42.60	42.60	42.60	42.80	42.50
SSC	29.20	29.20	29.20	29.80	30.80	29.80
Total number of genes	111	111	111	113	111	112
Protein encoding	77	77	77	80	77	78
tRNA	30	30	30	30	30	30
rRNA	4	4	4	4	4	4
Number of genes duplicated in IR	18	18	18	17	16	17