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
Affiliations
Anwesha Saha
Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Paleobiology, Twarda 51/55, Warsaw 00–818, Poland; Centre of New Technologies (CeNT), University of Warsaw, S. Banacha 2c, Warsaw 02–097, Poland
Mateusz Baca
Centre of New Technologies (CeNT), University of Warsaw, S. Banacha 2c, Warsaw 02–097, Poland
Danijela Popović
Centre of New Technologies (CeNT), University of Warsaw, S. Banacha 2c, Warsaw 02–097, Poland
Zeinolabedin Mohammadi
Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Golestan University, Gorgan, Iran
Urban Olsson
Systematics and Biodiversity, Department of Biology and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Box 463, Gothenburg SE-405 30, Sweden; Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, Box 461, Gothenburg SE-405 30, Sweden
Łucja Fostowicz-Frelik
Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Paleobiology, Twarda 51/55, Warsaw 00–818, Poland; Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Anthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China; CAS Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Beijing 100044, China; Corresponding author at: Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Twarda 51/55, Warsaw 00-818, Poland
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.
