Complete mitochondrial genome of the water vole, Microtus richardsoni (Cricetidae, Rodentia)

Fahad Alqahtani; Drew Duckett; Stacy Pirro; Ion I Mandoiu

doi:10.1080/23802359.2020.1780640

Complete mitochondrial genome of the water vole, Microtus richardsoni (Cricetidae, Rodentia)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2020 Jun 17;5(3):2498-2499. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2020.1780640.

Authors

Fahad Alqahtani^{1

2}, Drew Duckett³, Stacy Pirro⁴, Ion I Mandoiu¹

Affiliations

¹ Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA.
² National Center for Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Technology, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
³ Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.
⁴ Iridian Genomes INC, Bethesda, MD, USA.

Abstract

Water voles (Microtus richardsoni) are sensitive species distributed in the mountains of Canada (Alberta, British Columbia), and the United States of America (Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming). We assembled the complete circular M. richardsoni mitogenome, which is 16,285 bp in length and encodes 13 protein-coding genes, 22 tRNA genes, and two rRNA genes. We estimated the phylogenetic tree of M. richardsoni and 24 related arvicoline species with two outgroup species: Phodopus roborovskii and Cricetus cricetus.

Keywords: Cricetidae; Microtus richardsoni; Rodentia; Water vole; complete mitochondrial genome.