The complete mitochondrial genome of the national bird of Peru: Rupicola peruvianus (Aves, Passeriformes, Cotingidae)

Danilo E Bustamante; Jeffery R Hughey; Jani E Mendoza; Daniel Tineo; Jhordy Perez; Manuel Oliva; Santos Leiva; Martha S Calderon

doi:10.1080/23802359.2019.1688721

The complete mitochondrial genome of the national bird of Peru: Rupicola peruvianus (Aves, Passeriformes, Cotingidae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2019 Nov 13;4(2):3975-3976. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2019.1688721.

Authors

Danilo E Bustamante¹, Jeffery R Hughey², Jani E Mendoza¹, Daniel Tineo¹, Jhordy Perez¹, Manuel Oliva¹, Santos Leiva¹, Martha S Calderon¹

Affiliations

¹ Instituto de Investigación para el Desarrollo Sustentable de Ceja de Selva (INDES-CES), Universidad Nacional Toribio Rodríguez de Mendoza, Chachapoyas, Peru.
² Division of Mathematics, Science, and Engineering, Hartnell College, Salinas, CA, USA.

Abstract

Rupicola peruvianus Latham, known as the Andean Cock-of-the-Rock or locally as Tunqui, is distributed in the Andean cloud forests of South America from Venezuela to Bolivia. Here, we contribute to the bioinformatics and evolutionary systematics of the Cotingidae by performing high-throughput sequencing analysis on R. peruvianus from Luya, Amazonas, Peru. The R. peruvianus mitogenome is 17,035 base pairs (bp) in length and contains 37 genes (GenBank accession No. MN602289). The mitogenome is similar in structure and content to published mitogenomes from the neognathid orders Passeriformes and Falconiformes. Phylogenomic analysis of the R. peruvianus mitogenome situates it in a clade with the Pipridae, sister to the Tyrannidae. We anticipate that further mitogenome sequencing of the parvorder Tyrannida will improve the phylogenetic resolution and our understanding of the evolutionary history of this taxon.

Keywords: Amazonas; Andean Cock-of-the-Rock; Rupicola; mitogenome; phylogeny.