The first mitochondrial genome data of an old world fruit bat, Cynopterus sphinx from Malaysia

Puteri Nur Syahzanani Jahari; Shahfiz Mohd Azman; Kaviarasu Munian; Nur Alwani Zakaria; Mohd Shahir Shamsir Omar; Stine R Richter; Faezah Mohd Salleh

doi:10.1080/23802359.2020.1846472

The first mitochondrial genome data of an old world fruit bat, Cynopterus sphinx from Malaysia

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2021 Jan 12;6(1):53-55. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2020.1846472.

Authors

Puteri Nur Syahzanani Jahari¹, Shahfiz Mohd Azman², Kaviarasu Munian², Nur Alwani Zakaria², Mohd Shahir Shamsir Omar³, Stine R Richter⁴, Faezah Mohd Salleh¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Science, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor, Malaysia.
² Forest Biodiversity Division, Forest Research Institute Malaysia, Kepong, Malaysia.
³ Faculty of Applied Sciences and Technology, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, Pagoh Higher Education Hub, Muar, Malaysia.
⁴ Section for Evolutionary Genomics, The GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Abstract

We assembled the complete mitogenome of Cynopterus sphinx (Vahl, 1797) of the family Pteropodidae originating from Malaysia. The total mitogenome size was 16,710bp which consists of 37 genes (13 protein-coding genes, 22 transfer RNA genes, two ribosomal RNA genes and one control region). A phylogenetic and BLASTn result showed the mitogenome sequence in this study varies by nearly 7% (93.48% similarity) from the same species in Cambodia. The next closest match of BLASTn was at 92% similarity to the C. brachyotis. This suggests the species-complex in Cynopterus sp. has given rise to the genetic variability.

Keywords: Cynopterus sphinx; genetic variability; phylogenetic analysis; species-complex.

Grants and funding

This study was supported by the Ministry of Education, Malaysia under the Fundamental Research Grant Scheme [R.J130000.7845.4F963], Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) Research University Grant Tier 1 [Q.J130000.2545.18H49] and and UTM Transdisciplinary Research Grant [Q.J130000.3554.05G69/Q.J130000.3514.06G58].