bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.01.27.920181; this version posted January 28, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder. This article is a US Government work. It is not subject to copyright under 17 USC 105 and is also made available for use under a CC0 license. 1 The complete chloroplast genome sequence of American elm (Ulmus 2 americana) and comparative genomics of related species 3 4 Aziz Ebrahimi1*, Jennifer D. Antonides1, Cornelia C. Pinchot2, James M. Slavicek2, Charles E. 5 Flower2, and Keith E. Woeste3 6 7 1Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Hardwood Tree Improvement and 8 Regeneration Center (HTIRC), Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA. 9 2 USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station, Delaware, Ohio, USA. 10 3 USDA Forest Service Hardwood Tree Improvement and Regeneration Center (HTIRC), 11 Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, 12 USA. 13 14 Correspondence: 15 Aziz Ebrahimi 16
[email protected] 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.01.27.920181; this version posted January 28, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder. This article is a US Government work. It is not subject to copyright under 17 USC 105 and is also made available for use under a CC0 license. 33 ABSTRACT 34 American elm, Ulmus americana L., was cultivated widely in USA and Canada as a 35 landscape tree, but the genome of this important species is poorly characterized.