Article The Complete Plastid Genome of Artocarpus camansi: A High Degree of Conservation of the Plastome Structure in the Family Moraceae Ueric José Borges de Souza 1 , Luciana Cristina Vitorino 2,* , Layara Alexandre Bessa 2 and Fabiano Guimarães Silva 2 1 Graduate Program in the Biodiversity and Biotechnology of the Legal Amazon Region–BIONORTE, Federal University of Tocantins, UFT, Avenue NS-15, Quadra 109, Plano Diretor Norte, Palmas 77001-090, Tocantins, Brazil;
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[email protected]; Tel.: +55-64-3620-5600 Received: 6 October 2020; Accepted: 4 November 2020; Published: 8 November 2020 Abstract: Understanding the plastid genome is extremely important for the interpretation of the genetic mechanisms associated with essential physiological and metabolic functions, the identification of possible marker regions for phylogenetic or phylogeographic analyses, and the elucidation of the modes through which natural selection operates in different regions of this genome. In the present study, we assembled the plastid genome of Artocarpus camansi, compared its repetitive structures with Artocarpus heterophyllus, and searched for evidence of synteny within the family Moraceae. We also constructed a phylogeny based on 56 chloroplast genes to assess the relationships among three families of the order Rosales, that is, the Moraceae, Rhamnaceae, and Cannabaceae. The plastid genome of A. camansi has 160,096 bp, and presents the typical circular quadripartite structure of the Angiosperms, comprising a large single copy (LSC) of 88,745 bp and a small single copy (SSC) of 19,883 bp, separated by a pair of inverted repeat (IR) regions each with a length of 25,734 bp.