Complete mitochondrial genome of the Eastern slow worm, Anguis colchica (Nordmann, 1840)

Tomasz Strzała; Renata Grochowalska; Bartłomiej Najbar; Anna Najbar; Daniel Jablonski

doi:10.1080/23802359.2016.1275852

Complete mitochondrial genome of the Eastern slow worm, Anguis colchica (Nordmann, 1840)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2017 Feb 6;2(1):67-68. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2016.1275852.

Authors

Tomasz Strzała¹, Renata Grochowalska², Bartłomiej Najbar³, Anna Najbar⁴, Daniel Jablonski⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Genetics, Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Wrocław, Poland.
² Department of Biochemistry and Bioinformatics, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Zielona Góra, Zielona Góra, Poland.
³ Department of Botany and Ecology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Zielona Góra, Zielona Góra, Poland.
⁴ Department of Evolutionary Biology and Conservation of Vertebrates, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland.
⁵ Department of Zoology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovakia.

Abstract

Here, we present complete mitochondrial genome of the Eastern Slow Worm, Anguis colchica (Nordmann, 1840). Mitogenome complete sequence is 17,097 bp long and consists of 13 protein-coding genes, 22 tRNA genes, two rRNA genes and one control region. Anguis colchica mitochondrial genome has the same gene order as other mitogenomes of Anguis spp. Their analyzed genome has base composition as: A (30.4%), T (24.6%), C (30.4%), G (14.6%), with an A + T bias (55%). Length of the all 22 tRNA genes varies from 65 to 73 bp with an average of 69 bp. Presented mitogenome will provide new data for phylogenetic analysis within the genus Anguis.

Keywords: Anguidae; comparative analysis; legless lizards; mitogenome; mtDNA.