The Complete Mitochondrial Genome of Glischropus bucephalus (Vespertilionidae; Chiroptera) Provides New Evidence for Pipistrellus Paraphyly

The Indochinese thick-thumbed bat, Glischropus bucephalus, was described in 2011, but its molecular genetics (and the genetics of the whole genus Glischropus) are still poorly studied. We defined and annotated the complete mitogenome of Glischropus bucephalus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from Viet...

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Published inDiversity (Basel) Vol. 15; no. 10; p. 1085
Main Authors Zhukova, Svetlana S., Speranskaya, Anna S., Lisenkova, Alexandra A., Kruskop, Sergei V.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Basel MDPI AG 01.10.2023
Subjects
Bar codes
Bats
Chiroptera
Codons
Genes
Genetic testing
Genetics
Genomes
Glischropus
Mitochondrial DNA
mitochondrial genome
mtDNA
Nucleotides
Phylogenetics
Phylogeny
Pipistrellini
Pipistrellus
Proteins
Replication origins
rRNA
Software
Stop codon
Taxonomy
Transfer RNA
tRNA
Vespertilionidae
Vespertilioninae
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United States > US
Southeast Asia
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Summary:The Indochinese thick-thumbed bat, Glischropus bucephalus, was described in 2011, but its molecular genetics (and the genetics of the whole genus Glischropus) are still poorly studied. We defined and annotated the complete mitogenome of Glischropus bucephalus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from Vietnam. The complete mitogenome is 17,023 bp in total length, which includes 13 complete protein-coding genes, 22 tRNA genes, 2 rRNA, and one non-coding region (the origin of replication). The nucleotide composition is 33.2% A, 29.7% T, 13.6% G, and 23.5% C. The mitochondrial protein-coding genes use the standard start codon (ATN), one complete stop codon (TAA), and two incomplete stop codons (TA- and T-). The phylogenetic analysis confirmed that the genus Glischropus belongs to the Pipistrellini tribe and revealed that Glischropus bucephalus is clustered with the “eastern” clade of Pipistrellus, supporting the paraphyletic nature of the latter genus.
ISSN:1424-2818
1424-2818
DOI:10.3390/d15101085