Sangster George, Luksenburg Jolanda A
Department of Bioinformatics and Genetics, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden.
Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2020 Jul 6;5(3):2661-2664. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2020.1785349.
The mitogenome of (Serotine bat) was published in 2013 with GenBank accession number KF111725 and NCBI Reference Sequence number NC_022474. This sequence was placed with (Asian parti-colored bat) in a COI gene tree but with (Alashanian pipistrelle) in a cytochrome gene tree. Direct comparison of mitogenomes showed that 92.4% of this mitogenome is similar to , 5.9% to , and that 1.6% of the mitogenome could not be attributed to either species, or any other species. This mitogenome has been re-used in at least 17 phylogenies. Our findings suggest that mitogenomes are best verified with multiple gene trees, followed by direct comparison of sequences. We conclude that greater vigilance is warranted to ensure that problematic sequences do not enter the scientific record, and are not re-used in subsequent studies.
大鼠耳蝠的线粒体基因组于2013年发表,GenBank登录号为KF111725,NCBI参考序列编号为NC_022474。该序列在细胞色素氧化酶亚基I(COI)基因树中与双色蝙蝠归为一类,但在细胞色素基因树中与阿拉善伏翼归为一类。线粒体基因组的直接比较表明,该线粒体基因组92.4%与双色蝙蝠相似,5.9%与阿拉善伏翼相似,1.6%的线粒体基因组无法归属于这两个物种或任何其他物种。该线粒体基因组已在至少17个系统发育研究中被重复使用。我们的研究结果表明,线粒体基因组最好通过多个基因树进行验证,然后进行序列的直接比较。我们得出结论,需要提高警惕,以确保有问题的序列不会进入科学记录,也不会在后续研究中被重复使用。