The complete mitochondrial genome of the Pale-legged Leaf-Warbler Phylloscopus tenellipes (Aves: Phylloscopidae) from Maor Mountain, China

Wei Yu; Shuang Cui; Junda Chen; Dehuai Meng; Xiaoyu Zhou; Liwei Teng; Zhensheng Liu

doi:10.1080/23802359.2022.2100290

The complete mitochondrial genome of the Pale-legged Leaf-Warbler Phylloscopus tenellipes (Aves: Phylloscopidae) from Maor Mountain, China

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2022 Jul 25;7(7):1367-1368. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2022.2100290. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Wei Yu¹, Shuang Cui¹, Junda Chen¹, Dehuai Meng¹, Xiaoyu Zhou², Liwei Teng^{1

3}, Zhensheng Liu^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ College of Wildlife and Protected Area, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, China.
² Heilongjiang Province Siberia Tiger Park, Harbin, China.
³ Key Laboratory of Conservation Biology, National Forestry and Grassland Administration, Harbin, China.

Abstract

The Pale-legged Leaf-Warbler (Phylloscopus tenellipes) (Swinhoe, 1860) is an olive-brown warbler that is extensively dispersed in Asia. We sequenced the whole mitochondrial genome of a Pale-legged Leaf-Warbler collected on Maor Mountain, Heilongjiang Province, China. The mitochondrial genome is 16,972 bp and contains 13 protein-coding genes, two rRNA genes, 22 tRNA genes, and one control region (CR). The CR is 1098 bp. The nucleotide sequence is composed of 29.11% A, 22.98% T, 14.64% G, and 33.27% C. Phylogenetic research revealed that P. tenellipes is closely related to Phylloscopus borealoides.

Keywords: Complete mitochondrial genome; Leaf-Warbler; Phylloscopus tenellipes.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the Key Research and Development Program Funded Project for Ningxia, China [2020BEG02001], the National Natural Science Foundation of China [31870512, 32071649, 32070519], and the Ningxia Helan Mountain National Nature Reserve Administration Funded Project [NLF2020-93-1; 2020BEG02001-1].