Complete mitochondrial genome of the Italian slow-worm Anguis veronensis Pollini, 1818, and its comparison with mitogenomes of other Anguis species

Tomasz Strzała; Renata Grochowalska; Bartłomiej Najbar; Angelica Crottini; Barbara Kosowska; Daniel Jablonski

doi:10.1080/23802359.2017.1280705

Complete mitochondrial genome of the Italian slow-worm Anguis veronensis Pollini, 1818, and its comparison with mitogenomes of other Anguis species

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2017 Feb 6;2(1):71-72. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2017.1280705.

Authors

Tomasz Strzała¹, Renata Grochowalska², Bartłomiej Najbar³, Angelica Crottini⁴, Barbara Kosowska¹, Daniel Jablonski⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Genetics, Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Wrocław, Poland.
² Department of Biochemistry and Bioinformatics, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Zielona Góra, Zielona Góra, Poland.
³ Department of Botany and Ecology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Zielona Góra, Zielona Góra, Poland.
⁴ CIBIO Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, InBIO, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.
⁵ Department of Zoology, Comenius University in Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia.

Abstract

In this paper, we present complete mitochondrial genome of the Italian legless lizard species Anguis veronensis Pollini, 1818. The complete mtDNA consisted of 13 protein-coding genes, 22 tRNAs, and two rRNA genes which in total formed a DNA strand of 17,322 bp. Anguis veronensis mitogenome had the same gene order as two other compared Anguis spp., i.e. A. cephallonica and A. fragilis. The base composition of A. veronensis mitochondrial genome was A - 30.8%, T - 24.9%, C - 29.9%, G - 14.4%, with an A + T bias (55.7%). The newly described genome provides valuable data for future comparative mitogenomic analysis within Anguis genus.

Keywords: Italian; Mitogenome; anguidae; endemic; legless; lizards; peninsula; species.