The complete mitochondrial genome of Lesser Sand-Plover Charadrius mongolus atrifrons and its phylogenetic position

Shangmingyu Zhang; Xiaofeng Zheng; Chuang Zhou; Kunlin Yang; Yongjie Wu

doi:10.1080/23802359.2021.1972482

The complete mitochondrial genome of Lesser Sand-Plover Charadrius mongolus atrifrons and its phylogenetic position

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2021 Sep 9;6(10):2880-2881. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2021.1972482. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Shangmingyu Zhang^{1

2}, Xiaofeng Zheng^{1

2}, Chuang Zhou^{1

2}, Kunlin Yang³, Yongjie Wu^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory of Bio-resources and Eco-environment, Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
² Sichuan Key Laboratory of Conservation Biology on Endangered Wildlife, College of Life Sciences, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
³ Wildlife Resources Survey and Conservation Station of Sichuan Province, Chengdu, China.

Abstract

The Lesser Sand-Plover (Charadrius mongolus atrifrons) is a small shorebird in Charadriiformes. Here we assembled the complete mitochondrial genome of C. m. atrifrons (Aves: Charadriiformes) which is 16,919 bp in length and consisting of 13 protein-coding (PCGs), 2 ribosomal RNA, 22 transfer RNA and 1 control region. The overall A + T content of was 55.5%. The Maximum Likelihood (ML) tree based on the 12 concatenated mitochondrial protein-coding genes (except ND6 gene) placed C. m. atrifrons in a clade with C. alexandrines but separate from C. vociferus.

Keywords: Charadrius mongolus atrifrons; mitochondrial genome; phylogenetic analysis.

Grants and funding

This project was supported by the Biodiversity Survey and Assessment Project of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, China [No.2019HJ2096001006] and the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research Program [STEP No. 2019QZKK0501].