Complete mitochondrial genome of Ciconia nigra (Ciconiiformes: Ciconiidae)

Mu-Yeong Lee; Hey Sook Jeon; Young-Jun Kim; Junghwa An

doi:10.1080/23802359.2017.1310608

Complete mitochondrial genome of Ciconia nigra (Ciconiiformes: Ciconiidae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2017 Apr 24;2(1):230-231. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2017.1310608.

Authors

Mu-Yeong Lee¹, Hey Sook Jeon¹, Young-Jun Kim², Junghwa An¹

Affiliations

¹ Animal Resources Division, National Institute of Biological Resources, Incheon, Republic of Korea.
² Department of Veterinary Medicine, National Institute of Ecology, Seocheon, Chungcheongnam-do, Republic of Korea.

Abstract

The complete mitogenome of the Black Stork Ciconia nigra, obtained using a PCR-based method, is reported. It is 17,905 bp, slightly A + T biased (30.8% A, 31.5% C, 14.1% G, and 23.6% T), and comprises 13 protein-coding genes, 2 ribosomal RNA genes, 22 transfer RNA genes, and 1 putative non-coding gene. The two kinds of tandem repeat units found in D-loop (2316 bp) generated a length polymorphism between this and the previously reported D-Loop of C. nigra from China (2206 bp). A frameshift mutation was observed in ND3. The phylogenetic analysis clustered C. nigra with other Ciconia species.

Keywords: Black Stork; Ciconia nigra; mitochondrion; mitogenome.