Complete mitochondrial genome of Grey Treepie, Dendrocitta formosae (Aves: Corvidae)

Da-Wei Liu; Sun Cheng-He; Fei Yi-Ling; Sen-Lin Hou; Tang Song-Ze

doi:10.1080/23802359.2019.1629353

Complete mitochondrial genome of Grey Treepie, Dendrocitta formosae (Aves: Corvidae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2019 Jul 16;4(2):2326-2327. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2019.1629353.

Authors

Da-Wei Liu^{1

2}, Sun Cheng-He³, Fei Yi-Ling^{1

2}, Sen-Lin Hou^{1

2}, Tang Song-Ze^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Nanjing Forest Police College, Nanjing, China.
² Key Laboratory of Wildlife Evidence Technology State Forest and Grassland Administration, Nanjing, China.
³ College of Biology and the Environment, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, China.

Abstract

We report the complete mitochondrial genome of Dendrocitta formosae. The genome is a closed circular molecule of 16,875 bp, with all genes exhibiting typical avian gene arrangement. The overall base composition of this species' mitogenome is 24.33% T, 30.49% C, 30.17% A, and 15.01% G. The A + T content is 54.50%. Phylogenetic analysis of the complete mitogenome of 12 species conducted using the neighbour-joining method and kimura 2-parameter model suggested that the mitogenome of D. formosae was the closest to that of Pyrrhocorax graculus and P. pyrrhocorax. The results could aid future studies on Dendrocitta and Pyrrhocorax molecular evolution and phylogeny.

Keywords: Dendrocitta formosae; Grey Treepie; mitochondrial genome.