Next generation sequencing yields the complete mitogenome of captive forest musk deer, Moschus berezovskii (Ruminantia: Moschidae)

Chao Yang; Jie Tang; Kun Bian; Li-Juan Suo; Hao Yuan; Yan Wang; Yuan Huang

doi:10.1080/23802359.2018.1462670

Next generation sequencing yields the complete mitogenome of captive forest musk deer, Moschus berezovskii (Ruminantia: Moschidae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2018 Apr 23;3(2):472-473. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2018.1462670.

Authors

Chao Yang^{1

2}, Jie Tang¹, Kun Bian¹, Li-Juan Suo¹, Hao Yuan², Yan Wang¹, Yuan Huang²

Affiliations

¹ Shaanxi Institute of Zoology, Xi'an, China.
² School of Life Sciences, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, China.

Abstract

Moschus berezovskii is an endangered species, but its captive populations are valuable on musk secretions in traditional Chinese medicine and perfume manufacture. The mitogenome of M. berezovskii was 16,353 bp in size. Stop codons in 13 PCGs were all typical types except incomplete stop codon T for COX3, ND2 and ND4, and TA for ND3. No tandem repeat was found in control region. Phylogenetic analysis indicated that Moschidae has the closest relationship with Bovidae. We supported that M. berezovskii should be categorized into two subspecies, and suggested that the status of M. chrysogaster JQ608470 should be further investigated.

Keywords: Moschus berezovskii; mitogenome; phylogeny; subspecies.