The complete mitochondrial genome of Terek sandpiper, Xenus cinereus (Charadriiformes: Scolopacidae)

Wei Liu; Yi Zhang; Dongfang Hu; Xiaohui Ge; Peng Chen; Qing Chang

doi:10.1080/23802359.2016.1233467

The complete mitochondrial genome of Terek sandpiper, Xenus cinereus (Charadriiformes: Scolopacidae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2016 Oct 18;1(1):732-733. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2016.1233467.

Authors

Wei Liu¹, Yi Zhang¹, Dongfang Hu¹, Xiaohui Ge¹, Peng Chen¹, Qing Chang¹

Affiliation

¹ Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biodiversity and Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.

Abstract

The complete mitochondrial DNA genome of Terek sandpiper, Xenus cinereus, was detected by using polymerase chain reaction method and DNASTAR software package. The circular mitogenome (16,817 bp in length) contains 13 protein-coding genes, 2 rRNA genes (12S ribosomal RNA and 16S ribosomal RNA), 22 tRNA genes and a control region. The content of four kinds of bases of the complete mitochondrial DNA is 30.7% for A, 24.9% for T, 30.2% for C and 14.3% for G, respectively. To validate our data, 12 published complete mitochondrial genomes of Charadriiformes along with the genome of Terek sandpiper were used to construct the phylogenetic tree.

Keywords: Mitochondrial genome; Xenus cinereus; phylogenetic tree.