title: Complete mitochondrial genome of blood pheasant (Ithaginis cruentus).
abstract: The blood pheasant Ithaginis cruentus belongs to the family Phasianidae and distributes in the eastern Himalayas, India, Nepal, Bhutan and China. In this study, the total mitochondrial genome of I. cruentus was firstly determined. The genome is 16,683 bases in length. Bayesian inference, maximum likelihood and maximum parsimony methods were used to construct phylogenetic trees based on 12 concatenated protein-coding genes on the heavy strand. Phylogenetic analyses further confirmed that Ithaginis clearly diverged later than Arborophila, and Arborophila was a basal branch within Phasianidae.
authors.affiliation: Sichuan Key Laboratory of Conservation Biology on Endangered Wildlife, College of Life Sciences, Sichuan University , Chengdu 610064 , People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Tao
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Zeng
authors.forename: Feiyun
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Tu
authors.forename: Lele
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.forename: Chaochao
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Yan
authors.forename: Nan
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Xiuyue
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Bisong
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Yue
authors.forename: Jianghong
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ran
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial / Q000032:analysis / Q000235:genetics*; D046094:Galliformes / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics*; D054629:Genome, Mitochondrial; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA
chemical_list: D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial