Complete mitochondrial DNA sequence of yellow-legged buttonquail (Turnix tanki)

Xue Gou; Shize Li; Cheng Wang; Han Fan; Caichun Peng; Canshi Hu; Mingming Zhang; Haijun Su

doi:10.1080/23802359.2021.1935341

Complete mitochondrial DNA sequence of yellow-legged buttonquail (Turnix tanki)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2021 Jun 7;6(7):1914-1916. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2021.1935341.

Authors

Xue Gou^{1

2}, Shize Li^{3

4}, Cheng Wang^{1

2}, Han Fan^{1

2}, Caichun Peng^{1

2}, Canshi Hu^{2

3}, Mingming Zhang^{1

2}, Haijun Su^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Forestry College, Guizhou University, Guiyang, China.
² Research Center for Biodiversity and Natural Conservation, Guizhou University, Guiyang, China.
³ College of Life Sciences, Guizhou University, Guiyang, China.
⁴ Department of Food Science and Engineering, Moutai Institute, Renhuai, China.

Abstract

The Yellow-legged Buttonquail Turnix tanki is a species of the genus Turnix, which belongs to the order Charadriiformes. It is distributed across almost all of China. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed the bird's conservation status as 'Least Concern (LC).' We sequenced the complete mitogenome of T. tanki and examined its phylogenetic relationship with other charadriiformes species. The mitochondrial DNA is packaged in a compact 17,620 base pair circular molecule with A + T content of 57.90%. It contains 37 typical mitochondrial genes, including 13 protein-coding genes, two rRNAs and 22 tRNAs, and two non-coding regions. We reconstructed a phylogenetic tree based on mitogenome sequences of five Turnicidae species and one outgroup. Phylogenetic analysis indicated that T. tanki is a sister to T. suscitator.

Keywords: Complete mitogenome; Turnix tanki; Yellow-legged Buttonquail; gene arrangement; mitochondrial DNA.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [31801990, 31860610, 31400353]; Provincial Key Science and Technology Project of Guizhou [[2016]3022-1]; Provincial Science and Technology Plan of Guizhou [[2014]7682; [2019]2842; [2019]1068]; Technology Plan of Education Administration of Guizhou Province [[2018]102].