The mitochondrial genomes of three species of poison frogs (Anura: Dendrobates)

Mariana L Lyra; Eugenia Sanchez; Sven Künzel; Stefan Lötters; Célio F B Haddad; Miguel Vences

doi:10.1080/23802359.2017.1347830

The mitochondrial genomes of three species of poison frogs (Anura: Dendrobates)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2017 Jul 11;2(2):397-399. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2017.1347830.

Authors

Mariana L Lyra¹, Eugenia Sanchez², Sven Künzel³, Stefan Lötters⁴, Célio F B Haddad¹, Miguel Vences²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Zoology and Aquiculture Centre (CAUNESP), Campus Rio Claro, São Paulo State University - UNESP, Biosciences Institute, Rio Claro, SP, Brazil.
² Zoological Institute, Technical University of Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany.
³ Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany.
⁴ Biogeography Department, Trier University, Trier, Germany.

Abstract

We reconstructed nearly complete mitogenomes for three species of poison frogs, Dendrobates auratus, D. leucomelas, and D. tinctorius, from RNAseq data. We recovered the 13 protein-coding genes, 22 tRNA genes (except tRNA-Val for D. leucomelas), and two rRNA genes for all three species, plus partial sequences of the control region. The order of genes agrees with that known from a previously sequenced D. auratus, being the most commonly found for neobatrachian frogs. Based on full-sibling comparisons we estimate the probable error rate of Illumina-RNAseq reconstructed mitogenomes of up to 0.15%.

Keywords: Amphibia; Anura; Dendrobatidae; RNAseq; mitogenomes.