Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources (Jan 2019)

The first complete mitochondrial genomes of snow sheep (Ovis nivicola) and thinhorn sheep (Ovis dalli) and their phylogenetic implications for the genus Ovis

  • A. V. Dotsev,
  • E. Kunz,
  • A. V. Shakhin,
  • S. N. Petrov,
  • O. V. Kostyunina,
  • I. M. Okhlopkov,
  • T. E. Deniskova,
  • M. Barbato,
  • V. A. Bagirov,
  • D. G. Medvedev,
  • S. Krebs,
  • G. Brem,
  • I. Medugorac,
  • N. A. Zinovieva

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/23802359.2018.1535849
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 1
pp. 1332 – 1333

Abstract

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In this study, we present the first complete mitochondrial genomes of two species of the genus Ovis – snow sheep (Ovis nivicola) and thinhorn sheep (Ovis dalli). The mitochondrial genomes have a total length of 16,471 and 16,464 bp, respectively, including 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs), 22 tRNA genes, 2 rRNA genes, and a non-coding region. Phylogenetic analyses using nucleotide sequences of the 13 PCGs indicated that O. nivicola and O. dalli clustered with another representative of the Pachyceros subgenus – O. canadensis, which was consistent with the previous morphological classification.

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