Complete mitochondrial genome of an olive baboon (Papio anubis) from Gombe National Park, Tanzania

Christian Roos; Idrissa S Chuma; D Anthony Collins; Sascha Knauf; Dietmar Zinner

doi:10.1080/23802359.2018.1437813

Complete mitochondrial genome of an olive baboon (Papio anubis) from Gombe National Park, Tanzania

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2018 Feb 9;3(1):177-178. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2018.1437813.

Authors

Christian Roos^{1

2}, Idrissa S Chuma^{2

3

4}, D Anthony Collins⁵, Sascha Knauf⁴, Dietmar Zinner⁶

Affiliations

¹ Gene Bank of Primates, German Primate Center, Leibniz Institute for Primate Research, Goettingen, Germany.
² Primate Genetics Laboratory, German Primate Center, Leibniz Institute for Primate Research, Goettingen, Germany.
³ Department of Veterinary Medicine and Public Health, College of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania.
⁴ Work Group Neglected Tropical Diseases, Infection Biology Unit, German Primate Center, Leibniz Institute for Primate Research, Goettingen, Germany.
⁵ Gombe Stream Research Centre, Jane Goodall Institute, Kigoma, Tanzania.
⁶ Cognitive Ethology Laboratory, German Primate Center, Leibniz Institute for Primate Research, Goettingen, Germany.

Abstract

The olive baboon (Papio anubis) is the most widely distributed baboon species. We report here on the complete mitochondrial genome of an olive baboon from the south-eastern edge of the species' range from Gombe National Park (NP), Tanzania. The genome (GenBank accession number MG787545) has a length of 16,490 bp and exhibits the typical structure of mammalian mitochondrial genomes. Phylogenetically, the olive baboon from Gombe NP is most closely related to eastern P. anubis, northern P. cynocephalus and P. hamadryas. The data are an important addition to further clarify the phylogeography of baboons and phylogeny of papionins in general.

Keywords: Cercopithecidae; Sanger sequencing; non-human primates.