title: The complete mitochondrial genomes of Cynomys leucurus and C. ludovicianus (Rodentia: Sciuridae).
abstract: The mitochondrial genomes of the white - tailed praire dog Cynomys leucurus and black-tailed prairie dog C. ludovicianus (Rodentia: Sciuridae) are circular molecules of 16,454 bp and 16,466 bp in length, respectively, containing 37 genes as in other Rodentia species. The A + T content of the overall base composition of the H-strand is 63.0% and 62.6% for C. leucurus and C. ludovicianus, respectively. The control region of the C. leucurus and C. ludovicianus mt genome is 1012 bp in length, and the A + T content of this region is 63.5% and 62.0%, respectively. Nucleotide sequence divergence of the mt genome (p distance) between C. leucurus and C. ludovicianus was 4.0%.
authors.affiliation: a Institute of Ecology, Zhejiang Normal University , Jinhua , Zhejiang Province , P.R. China .
authors.forename: Bingfei
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: b College of Life Science and Chemistry, Zhejiang Normal University , Jinhua , Zhejiang Province , P.R. China , and.
authors.forename: Danna
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.affiliation: a Institute of Ecology, Zhejiang Normal University , Jinhua , Zhejiang Province , P.R. China .|b College of Life Science and Chemistry, Zhejiang Normal University , Jinhua , Zhejiang Province , P.R. China , and.
authors.forename: Hongyi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Cheng
authors.affiliation: c Department of Biology , Carleton University , Ottawa , Ontario , Canada.
authors.forename: Kenneth B
authors.initials: KB
authors.lastname: Storey
authors.affiliation: a Institute of Ecology, Zhejiang Normal University , Jinhua , Zhejiang Province , P.R. China .|b College of Life Science and Chemistry, Zhejiang Normal University , Jinhua , Zhejiang Province , P.R. China , and.
authors.forename: Jiayong
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001482:Base Composition; D021901:DNA, Intergenic / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D023061:Gene Order; D054629:Genome, Mitochondrial; D010802:Phylogeny; D012589:Sciuridae / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D021901:DNA, Intergenic
keywords: Black-tailed prairie dog; genome arrangement; mitogenome; white-tailed prairie dog