Complete mitochondrial genome of Ciconia nigra (Ciconiiformes: Ciconiidae), a threatened stork in China

Wu-Long Liang; Jun Zhu; Zhu-Mei Ren

doi:10.1080/23802359.2019.1640082

Complete mitochondrial genome of Ciconia nigra (Ciconiiformes: Ciconiidae), a threatened stork in China

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2019 Jul 13;4(2):2509-2510. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2019.1640082.

Authors

Wu-Long Liang¹, Jun Zhu², Zhu-Mei Ren¹

Affiliations

¹ School of Life Science, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, China.
² Biodiversity Research Center of Shanxi, Taiyuan, China.

Abstract

The complete mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) of black stork Ciconia nigra from North China was sequenced by shotgun genome-skimming method. The mitogenome of C. nigra was 17,787 bp in length and consists of 13 protein-coding genes, 22 tRNAs, two rRNAs, and one non-coding control region (D-loop). All protein-coding genes initiate with ATG codon except for ND2, ND3, and COX1, which uses ATA, ATC, and GTG as their initiation codons, respectively. The termination codon of protein-coding genes shows rich diversity with six termination codons (TAA, AGG, AGA, TAG, T, and A). The phylogenetic trees based on 13 protein-coding genes showed that Ciconia formed a monophyletic group, which was sister to the clade clustered by Threskiorothidae species.

Keywords: Ciconia nigra; Ciconiidae; mitochondrial genome; phylogeny.