Table 1.

Comparison of general characteristics of the cp genomes of the eight Ranunculaceae species

Type	P. chinensis	P. chinensis var. kissii	P. cernua f. plumbea	P. dahurica	P. turczaninovii	P. cernua	A. carmichaelii	C. chinensis
Size (bp)	163,851	163,756	162,481	162,450	162,795	162,924	155,737	155,484
GC content (%)	37.14	37.16	37.42	37.42	37.40	37.35	38.10	38.17
LSC length (bp)	82,342	82,294	81,923	81,894	82,177	82,427	86,330	84,585
SSC length (bp)	19,272	19,224	17,871	17,843	18,243	17,676	17,021	17,383
IR length (bp)	31,118	31,119	31,343	31,356	31,187	31,410	26,193	26,758
Gene number	134	134	134	134	134	134	112	128
Gene number in IR regions	46	46	46	46	46	46	36	36
Protein-coding gene number	90	90	90	90	90	90	78	92
rRNA gene number	8	8	8	8	8	8	4	8
tRNA gene number	36	36	36	36	36	36	30	28