Complete mitochondrial genomes of the New World jacanas: Jacana spinosa and Jacana jacana.
The New World jacanas, Jacana spinosa (Mexico to Panama and also the West Indies) and Jacana jacana (Panama and South America), are polyandrous freshwater waders that are common throughout the Neotropics. These two species hybridize narrowly at their contact zone in Panama, and as part of a study of the hybrid zone dynamics, we present complete, annotated mitochondrial genomes for both species. The two species have very similar mitochondrial genomes, showing identical gene orders, and differing in size in only two RNA features and the control region, and among protein-coding genes, the two genomes had average uncorrected pairwise divergence of 1.8%, ranging from 0.7% for ND4L and 3.6% for ATP8. However, control region divergence is high (∼ 16%). These mitochondrial genome sequences may be useful tools for understanding jacana hybridization dynamics, especially regarding potential mitonuclear incompatibilities.
a Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute , Panamá , República de Panamá and.|b Centro de Biodiversidad y Descubrimiento de Drogas, Instituto de Investigaciones Científicas y Servicios de Alta Tecnología , Panamá , República de Panamá
Matthew J
MJ
Miller
b Centro de Biodiversidad y Descubrimiento de Drogas, Instituto de Investigaciones Científicas y Servicios de Alta Tecnología , Panamá , República de Panamá
Celestino
C
Aguilar
b Centro de Biodiversidad y Descubrimiento de Drogas, Instituto de Investigaciones Científicas y Servicios de Alta Tecnología , Panamá , República de Panamá
Luis Fernando
LF
De León
b Centro de Biodiversidad y Descubrimiento de Drogas, Instituto de Investigaciones Científicas y Servicios de Alta Tecnología , Panamá , República de Panamá
José R
JR
Loaiza
a Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute , Panamá , República de Panamá and.
W Owen
WO
McMillan
D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D046091:Charadriiformes / Q000235:genetics*; D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial / Q000235:genetics*; D054629:Genome, Mitochondrial
D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial
Genome; Jacana; mitochondrion; waders