The complete mitochondrial genome of the Amur soft-shelled turtle (Pelodiscus maackii Brandt, 1858), from South Korea

Hae-Jun Baek; Philjae Kim; Young-Chae Kim; Areum Kim; Suhwan Kim; Mi-Sook Min; Hang Lee

doi:10.1080/23802359.2022.2051759

The complete mitochondrial genome of the Amur soft-shelled turtle (Pelodiscus maackii Brandt, 1858), from South Korea

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2022 Mar 15;7(3):498-500. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2022.2051759. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Hae-Jun Baek^{1

2}, Philjae Kim², Young-Chae Kim³, Areum Kim^{3

4}, Suhwan Kim², Mi-Sook Min¹, Hang Lee¹

Affiliations

¹ Conservation Genome Resources Bank for Korean Wildlife (CGRB) and Research Institute for Veterinary Science College of Veterinary Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea.
² Invasive Alien Species Research Team, Bureau of Survey and Safety Research, National Institute of Ecology, SeoCheon, Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea.
³ Mammal Research Team, Research Center for Endangered Species, National Institute of Ecology, YeongYang, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea.
⁴ Department of Life Sciences, College of Natural Science, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea.

Abstract

In this study, we use a specimen from wild-caught individual to determine the complete mitochondrial genome of the Amur soft-shelled turtle (Pelodiscus maackii). The complete mitogenome of P. maackii has 16,258 bp in length and consists of 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs), 22 tRNAs, two rRNAs, and one control region. The arrangement of genes of P. maackii is identical with previously reported mitogenomes in the family Trionychoidea. According to our result, the ML tree for the phylogenetic reconstruction revealed that the individuals used in present study is closely related with the previously reported sequences of P. sinensis (AY962573 and MG431983) in p-distance 0.7% and 2.5%.

Keywords: Amur soft-shelled turtle; Korean peninsula; Pelodiscus maackii; complete mitogenome.

Grants and funding

This works was supported by a grant from the National Institute of Ecology (NIE), funded by the Ministry of Environment (MOE) of the Republic of Korea [NIE-A-2022-09].