title: Complete mitochondrial genome of endangered Maroon-fronted Parrot (Rhynchopsitta terrisi) - conspecific relation of the species with Thick-billed Parrot (Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha).
abstract: Maroon-fronted Parrot (Rhynchopsitta terrisi) is an endangered parrot endemic to pine-oak forests in north-eastern Mexico. According to all present classifications, R. terrisi as well as Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha are treated as a separate species based on some morphological and behavioral discrepancies. Despite this formal separation of the two species, some taxonomists conjecture their conspecific character. However, mutual taxonomic position of both species/subspecies was never verified by molecular research. We sequenced full mitochondrial genome of R. terrisi and constructed phylogenetic tree using sequences of mitochondrial ND2 gene from R. terrisi. R. pahyrchyncha and some other representative species of the tribe Arini. Our results indicated that in contrast to formal classification, both Rhynchopsitta taxa should be treated as subspecies.
authors.affiliation: Department of Genetics, Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences , Wroclaw , Poland.
authors.forename: Adam Dawid
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Urantowka
authors.forename: Tomasz
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Strzała
authors.forename: Krzysztof Aleksander
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Grabowski
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001482:Base Composition; D001483:Base Sequence; D001499:Bayes Theorem; D056727:Endangered Species; D050259:Genes, Mitochondrial / Q000235:genetics*; D054629:Genome, Mitochondrial / Q000235:genetics*; D016013:Likelihood Functions; D008800:Mexico; D008957:Models, Genetic; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010311:Parrots / Q000235:genetics*; D010802:Phylogeny; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D013045:Species Specificity
keywords: Psittacidae; Psittaciformes; Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha; Rhynchopsitta terrisi