Complete mitochondrial genome of Urocissa erythroryncha (Passeriformes: Corvidae)

Ruihua Liu; Renrui Chen; Jie Liu; Yonghong Xiong; Xianzhao Kan

doi:10.1080/23802359.2018.1481782

Complete mitochondrial genome of Urocissa erythroryncha (Passeriformes: Corvidae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2018 Jun 18;3(2):691-692. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2018.1481782.

Authors

Ruihua Liu^{1

2}, Renrui Chen¹, Jie Liu¹, Yonghong Xiong¹, Xianzhao Kan¹

Affiliations

¹ The institute of Bioinformatics, College of Life Sciences, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, China.
² The Xinyu Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., Suzhou, China.

Abstract

The complete mitochondrial genome of Urocissa erythroryncha is 16930 bp in length. It was predicted to contain 13 PCGs, 22 tRNA genes, and 2 rRNA genes, and a putative control region. All of the PCGs initiated with ATG, except for MT-COX1 which began with GTG and MT-ND3 began with ATA, while stopped by three types of stop codons. Phylogenetic analysis showed that Urocissa erythroryncha and the other species of Corvidae were monophyletic group in this study. And the monophyly of the genus Pyrrhocorax was strongly supported. Moreover, our results also support a sister-group relationship between Corvidae and Muscicapidae.

Keywords: Urocissa erythroryncha; mitochondrial genome; phylogenetic analysis.