The complete mitochondrial genome of Takydromus amurensis (Squamata: Lacertidae)

Wei-Wei Ma; Huan Liu; Wen-Ge Zhao; Peng Liu

doi:10.1080/23802359.2016.1155091

The complete mitochondrial genome of Takydromus amurensis (Squamata: Lacertidae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2016 Mar 28;1(1):214-215. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2016.1155091.

Authors

Wei-Wei Ma¹, Huan Liu¹, Wen-Ge Zhao¹, Peng Liu¹

Affiliation

¹ College of Life Science and Technology, Harbin Normal University, Harbin, P.R. China.

Abstract

The complete mitogenome sequence of Takydromus amurensis (Squamata: Lacertidae) is determined using long PCR for the first time in this study. It is a circular molecule of 17 333 bp in length (GenBank accession number: KU641018). Similar to the most other lizards, the complete mtDNA sequence of T. amurensis contained two rRNA genes (12S rRNA and 16S rRNA), 22 tRNA genes, 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs) and a control region (D-loop). The nucleotide composition was 31.23% A, 26.06% C, 13.91% G and 28.8% T. Mitochondrial genomes analyses based on NJ method yield phylogenetic trees, including 14 reported lizards belonging to three families (Lacertidae, Gekkonidae and Agamidae). These molecular data presented here provide a useful tool for systematic analyses of genus Takydromus.

Keywords: Lacertidae; Takydromus amurensis; mitogenome; phylogenetic tree.