The mitochondrial genomes of five frog species of the Neotropical genus Ischnocnema (Anura: Brachycephaloidea: Brachycephalidae)

Pedro P G Taucce; Clarissa Canedo; Célio F B Haddad; Alan R Lemmon; Emily Moriarty Lemmon; Miguel Vences; Mariana Lyra

doi:10.1080/23802359.2018.1501312

The mitochondrial genomes of five frog species of the Neotropical genus Ischnocnema (Anura: Brachycephaloidea: Brachycephalidae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2018 Aug 17;3(2):915-917. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2018.1501312.

Authors

Pedro P G Taucce¹, Clarissa Canedo², Célio F B Haddad¹, Alan R Lemmon³, Emily Moriarty Lemmon⁴, Miguel Vences⁵, Mariana Lyra¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Zoology and Aquaculture Center (CAUNESP), Biosciences Institute, São Paulo State University - UNESP, Rio Claro, Brazil.
² Department of Zoology, Instituto de Biologia Roberto Alcântara Gomes, Rio de Janeiro State University - UERJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
³ Department of Scientific Computing, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA.
⁴ Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahasse, FL, USA.
⁵ Zoological Institute Technical University of Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany.

Abstract

We report the mitogenomes for five species of the Ischnocnema guentheri series, being the first described for this genus of brachycephalid frogs. We assembled mitogenomes from anchored hybrid enrichment data and recovered the 13 protein-coding genes, 22 tRNA genes, and two rRNA genes for all species. The general structure agrees with most previously sequenced neobatrachians, with two exceptions: the origin of replication of L-strand (O_L) was found between tRNA-A and tRNA-N, and the position of tRNA-L and tRNA-T, which are dispersed in the control region. We provide a phylogenetic tree with outgroups, which is consistent with previous phylogenetic hypotheses.

Keywords: Amphibia; Brazil; Ischnocnema guentheri series; Terrarana; mitogenomes.