The complete mitochondrial genome of the parthenogenetic Caucasian rock lizard Darevskia unisexualis (Squamata: lacertidae) contains long tandem repeat formed by 59 bp monomer

Aleksey Komissarov; Vitaly Korchagin; Sergei Kliver; Pavel Dobrynin; Serafima Semyenova; Andrey Vergun; Stephen O'Brien; Alexey Ryskov

doi:10.1080/23802359.2016.1253040

The complete mitochondrial genome of the parthenogenetic Caucasian rock lizard Darevskia unisexualis (Squamata: lacertidae) contains long tandem repeat formed by 59 bp monomer

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2016 Dec 9;1(1):875-877. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2016.1253040.

Authors

Aleksey Komissarov¹, Vitaly Korchagin², Sergei Kliver¹, Pavel Dobrynin¹, Serafima Semyenova², Andrey Vergun², Stephen O'Brien¹, Alexey Ryskov²

Affiliations

¹ Theodosius Dobzhansky Center for Genome Bioinformatics Saint Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia.
² Laboratory of Genome Organization, Institute of Gene Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.

Abstract

The first complete mitochondrial genome sequence of parthenogenetic Caucasian rock lizard Darevskia unisexualis (Lacertidae family) is determined by hybrid assembly with Illumina HiSeq and PacBio RS II platforms. The circular 21.4 kbp mitogenome contains 13 protein-coding genes, 12S and 16S rRNA genes, 20 tRNAs, two pseudogenized tRNAs, and one long tandem repeats with 4.1 kbp length formed by 59 bp monomer repeated x70.6 times located before control region. This finding represents a new example of mitogenome variation in lizards of hybrid origin, providing fundamental data for following study of a unique hybridization system formed by parthenogenetic and bisexual species in the mountain steppe of central Armenia.

Keywords: Darevskia unisexualis; Mitochondrial genome; parthenogenetic lizards; rock lizards; tandem repeats.