Sun Wei-Li, Zhong Wei, Bao Kun, Liu Han-Lu, Ya-Han Yang, Wang Zhuo, Li Guang-Yu
a Institute of Special Animal and Plant Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) , Changchun , P.R. China and.
b State Key Lab for Molecular Biology of Special Economic Animals , Changchun , P.R. China.
Mitochondrial DNA A DNA Mapp Seq Anal. 2016 Sep;27(5):3348-50. doi: 10.3109/19401736.2015.1018216. Epub 2015 Feb 25.
Silver fox is color variant of Vulpes vulpes. At present, there are few studies on phylogeny of Canidae and Caniformia. In this article, we determined and described the complete mitogenome of silver fox for the first time, which is 16,723 bp in length, containing 13 protein-coding genes, 2 rRNA genes, 22 tRNA genes, one origin of replication on the light-strand (OL) and a putative control region (CR). The overall base composition is 31.4% A, 27.9% T, 26.0% C, 14.7% G, respectively, with a AT bias (59.3%). Ten protein-coding genes use the initiation codon ATG while ND2, ND3 and ND5 use ATA. Most of them have TAA as the stop codon, except ND2 uses TAG, Cytb uses AGA, and COX3, ND3, ND4 use an incomplete stop codon TA. The information is expected to provide useful molecular data for further taxonomic and phylogenetic studies of Canidae and Caniformia.
银狐是赤狐的一个毛色变种。目前,关于犬科和犬型亚目的系统发育研究较少。在本文中,我们首次测定并描述了银狐的完整线粒体基因组,其长度为16,723 bp,包含13个蛋白质编码基因、2个rRNA基因、22个tRNA基因、一个轻链复制起点(OL)和一个假定的控制区(CR)。总体碱基组成为A占31.4%、T占27.9%、C占26.0%、G占14.7%,具有AT偏向性(59.3%)。10个蛋白质编码基因使用起始密码子ATG,而ND2、ND3和ND5使用ATA。它们大多数以TAA作为终止密码子,除了ND2使用TAG、Cytb使用AGA,以及COX3、ND3、ND4使用不完全终止密码子TA。这些信息有望为犬科和犬型亚目的进一步分类学和系统发育研究提供有用的分子数据。