The first complete mitochondrial genome data of the pygmy rabbit Brachylagus idahoensis, the world's smallest leporid

Anwesha Saha; Mateusz Baca; Danijela Popović; Zeinolabedin Mohammadi; Urban Olsson; Łucja Fostowicz-Frelik

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2022.108314

The first complete mitochondrial genome data of the pygmy rabbit Brachylagus idahoensis, the world's smallest leporid

Data Brief. 2022 May 24:42:108314. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2022.108314. eCollection 2022 Jun.

Authors

Anwesha Saha^{1

2}, Mateusz Baca², Danijela Popović², Zeinolabedin Mohammadi³, Urban Olsson^{4

5}, Łucja Fostowicz-Frelik^{1

6

7}

Affiliations

¹ Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Paleobiology, Twarda 51/55, Warsaw 00-818, Poland.
² Centre of New Technologies (CeNT), University of Warsaw, S. Banacha 2c, Warsaw 02-097, Poland.
³ Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Golestan University, Gorgan, Iran.
⁴ Systematics and Biodiversity, Department of Biology and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Box 463, Gothenburg SE-405 30, Sweden.
⁵ Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, Box 461, Gothenburg SE-405 30, Sweden.
⁶ Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Anthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China.
⁷ CAS Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Beijing 100044, China.

Abstract

The pygmy rabbit Brachylagus idahoensis (Merriam, 1891) is the smallest extant leporid, which naturally occurs in the Great Basin and adjacent areas in western parts of the United States of America. Its distribution is strongly associated with the sagebrush (Artemisia ssp.) vegetation. Here we present, for the first time, the complete mitochondrial genome of Brachylagus idahoensis, de novo assembled from Illumina short reads of fragmented probe-enriched DNA. The circular mitogenome is 17,021 bp in length and contains 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs), two ribosomal RNAs (16S rRNA and 12S rRNA), 22 transfer RNA genes, and a control region. The gene NAD6 and the tRNA(Gln), tRNA(Ala), tRNA(Asn), tRNA(Cys), tRNA(Tyr), tRNA(Ser), tRNA(Glu) and tRNA(Pro) are encoded on the light strand while the rest are encoded on the heavy strand. The overall nucleotide composition was 30.78% for A, 28.5% for T, 13.62% for G and 27.08% for C. The mitogenome data are available in the GenBank under the accession number OL436257.

Keywords: De novo assembly; Lagomorpha; Mitogenome; North America; Phylogenomics.