title: The complete mitochondrial genome of large flying fox, Pteropus vampyrus (Pteropus, Pteropodidae).
abstract: The large flying fox (Pteropus vampyrus) is named after its fox-like face and noted for being one of the largest bats. Here, we reported the complete mitogenome sequence of P. vampyrus, which was 16,554 bp and composed of 13 protein-coding genes, 22 tRNA genes, two rRNA genes, and one control region, with a base composition of lower G+C content (41.5%). Like other bats, all genes were located on H-strand except for eight tRNA and ND6 genes. Most protein-coding genes started with an ATG codon except for ND2, ND3, and ND5, which initiated with ATA or ATT instead, and terminated with the typical stop codon (TAA/TAG) or a single T or an unexpected codon of AGG. Within the control region, 6 bp repeat (TACGCA) was appeared only nine times, much lower than other published Pteropus species. These results provided basic information for researching Pteropus vampyrus on genetics, phylogeny, and adaptive evolution.
authors.affiliation: a College of Life Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing , China.|b BGI Education Center, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences , Shenzhen , China , and.|c BGI-Shenzhen , Shenzhen , China.
authors.forename: Jiang
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.affiliation: a College of Life Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing , China.|b BGI Education Center, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences , Shenzhen , China , and.|c BGI-Shenzhen , Shenzhen , China.
authors.forename: Xiang-Feng
authors.initials: XF
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: c BGI-Shenzhen , Shenzhen , China.
authors.forename: Hui
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yuan
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001482:Base Composition; D002685:Chiroptera / Q000235:genetics*; D023061:Gene Order; D059646:Genome Size; D054629:Genome, Mitochondrial; D008928:Mitochondria / Q000235:genetics*; D016366:Open Reading Frames; D012335:RNA, Ribosomal / Q000235:genetics; D012343:RNA, Transfer / Q000235:genetics; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D012335:RNA, Ribosomal; D012343:RNA, Transfer
keywords: Bat; P. vampyrus; mitogenome