The complete mitochondrial genome of Epomophorus gambianus (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) and its phylogenetic analysis

Silke A Riesle-Sbarbaro; Stefan P W de Vries; Samuel Stubbs; Kofi Amponsah-Mensah; Andrew A Cunnigham; James L N Wood; David R Sargan

doi:10.1080/23802359.2016.1181993

The complete mitochondrial genome of Epomophorus gambianus (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) and its phylogenetic analysis

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2016 Jul 8;1(1):447-449. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2016.1181993.

Authors

Silke A Riesle-Sbarbaro^{1

2}, Stefan P W de Vries¹, Samuel Stubbs¹, Kofi Amponsah-Mensah³, Andrew A Cunnigham², James L N Wood¹, David R Sargan¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
² Zoological Society of London, Institute of Zoology, London, UK.
³ Department of African Center for Wetlands Conservation, University of Legon, Accra, Ghana.

Abstract

The Gambian epauletted fruit bat, Epomophorus gambianus, is widely distributed across sub-Saharan Africa. Its assembled and annotated mitochondrial genome (GenBank accession no. KT963027) is 16,702 bases in length, containing 13 protein-coding genes, 22 transfer RNA genes, two ribosomal RNA genes and two non-coding regions: the control region (D-loop) and the origin of light-strand replication (O_L). The average base composition is 32.2% A; 27.6% C; 14% G; and 26.1% T. The mitogenome presented a structural composition greatly conserved between members of the Pteropodidae family.

Keywords: Chiroptera; Epomophorus gambianus; mitogenome; phylogeny.