“…The size of the pt genomes of these seven species was within the expected range (127-128 Kb) of other sequenced pt genomes of Juniperus members [46,47,49]. The GC content ranged from 34.36% to 34.98% (Table 2); the same value has been observed in other Juniperus pt genomes, including those of J. cedrus, J. tibetica, J. squamata, J. chinensis, J. gaussenii, J. pingii, and J. procumbens [44,45,48,54]. Despite the strong similarity of these seven pt genomes, several highly divergent regions, including accD, clpP-infA, matK, matK-ndhA, ycf1, ycf2, and ycf3, were identified.…”