Hwang Jae Yeon, Lee Sang-Goo, Kim Eun Bae
Department of Animal Life Science, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Republic of Korea.
Division of Genetics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2016 Mar 29;1(1):264-265. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2016.1159932.
The badger is a common carnivorous animal maintain ecosystem by regulating the population of their prey. However, genomic information such as sequence polymorphisms has been restricted until recently. In this study, we have sequenced and assembled complete mitogenomes of Asian badgers, , and polymorphic sites were identified. A total 182 singleton polymorphic sites were identified, and the 92 sites were located in protein-coding genes. Phylogenetic analysis showed that Asian badgers are evolutionary closed to Japanese badgers rather than European badgers. This study will provide important genomic information to assign taxon of species and to identify species of mustelids.
獾是一种常见的食肉动物，通过调节猎物数量来维持生态系统。然而，直到最近，诸如序列多态性等基因组信息一直受到限制。在本研究中，我们对亚洲獾的完整线粒体基因组进行了测序和组装，并鉴定出多态性位点。总共鉴定出182个单态多态性位点，其中92个位点位于蛋白质编码基因中。系统发育分析表明，亚洲獾在进化上与日本獾更为接近，而不是欧洲獾。这项研究将为物种分类和鼬科物种鉴定提供重要的基因组信息。
