The complete mitochondrial genome of Sorex minutissimus (Eulipotyphla: Soricidae)

Bo Pang; Xingyao Chen; Dajie Xu; Xiufeng Yang; Weilai Sha; Honghai Zhang; Huashan Dou

doi:10.1080/23802359.2019.1618207

The complete mitochondrial genome of Sorex minutissimus (Eulipotyphla: Soricidae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2020 May 20;5(3):2117-2118. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2019.1618207. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Bo Pang¹, Xingyao Chen¹, Dajie Xu², Xiufeng Yang², Weilai Sha², Honghai Zhang², Huashan Dou¹

Affiliations

¹ Hulunbuir Academy of Inland Lakes in Northern Cold & Arid Areas, Hulunbuir, P. R. China.
² College of Life Science, Qufu Normal University, Qufu, P. R. China.

Abstract

In this study, the complete mitochondrial genome of Sorex minutissimus was sequenced and deposited to GeneBank for the first time using muscle tissue. This mitochondrial genome is a circular molecule of 16,700 bp in length and sequence analysis showed it contains 2 rRNA genes, 22 tRNA genes, 13 protein-coding genes, rep_origin, and D_loop. Phylogenetic analysis on the basis of 12 protein-coding genes except ND6 of 13 Soricidae species' mitochondrial genomes using ML and BI demonstrated that S. minutissimus and other Sorex species were clustered into same clade.

Keywords: Sorex minutissimus; mitochondrial genome; phylogenetic tree.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the Special Fund for Forest Scientific Research in the Public Welfare [201404420] and the National Natural Science Fund of China [31872242, 31672313, 31372220].