Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources (Dec 2017)

Complete mitogenome of the red squirrel Sciurus vulgaris (Sciuridae) from Korea

  • Hye Ri Kim,
  • Ji Young Kim,
  • Eui Kyeong Kim,
  • Hyun Ju Kim,
  • Yung Chul Park

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/23802359.2017.1365646
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 2
pp. 560 – 561

Abstract

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The mitogenome of the Korean S. vulgaris is a circular molecule of 16,511 bp, consisting of a control region and a conserved set of 37 genes containing 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs), 22 tRNA genes and 2 rRNA genes (12S rRNA and 16S rRNA). The mitogenome of the Korean S. vulgaris is AT-biased, with a nucleotide composition of 32.0% A, 30.9% T, 12.6% G and 24.5% C. The phylogenetic analysis revealed that the Korean red squirrel S. vulgaris is well grouped with the European red squirrel S. vulgaris and formed a sister clade to the Old World flying squirrels of the genus Pteromys.

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