title: The complete mitochondrial genome of silver fox (Caniformia: Canidae).
abstract: Silver fox is color variant of Vulpes vulpes. At present, there are few studies on phylogeny of Canidae and Caniformia. In this article, we determined and described the complete mitogenome of silver fox for the first time, which is 16,723 bp in length, containing 13 protein-coding genes, 2 rRNA genes, 22 tRNA genes, one origin of replication on the light-strand (OL) and a putative control region (CR). The overall base composition is 31.4% A, 27.9% T, 26.0% C, 14.7% G, respectively, with a AT bias (59.3%). Ten protein-coding genes use the initiation codon ATG while ND2, ND3 and ND5 use ATA. Most of them have TAA as the stop codon, except ND2 uses TAG, Cytb uses AGA, and COX3, ND3, ND4 use an incomplete stop codon TA. The information is expected to provide useful molecular data for further taxonomic and phylogenetic studies of Canidae and Caniformia.
authors.affiliation: a Institute of Special Animal and Plant Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) , Changchun , P.R. China and.|b State Key Lab for Molecular Biology of Special Economic Animals , Changchun , P.R. China.
authors.forename: Wei-Li
authors.initials: WL
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.affiliation: a Institute of Special Animal and Plant Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) , Changchun , P.R. China and.|b State Key Lab for Molecular Biology of Special Economic Animals , Changchun , P.R. China.
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zhong
authors.affiliation: a Institute of Special Animal and Plant Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) , Changchun , P.R. China and.|b State Key Lab for Molecular Biology of Special Economic Animals , Changchun , P.R. China.
authors.forename: Kun
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Bao
authors.affiliation: a Institute of Special Animal and Plant Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) , Changchun , P.R. China and.|b State Key Lab for Molecular Biology of Special Economic Animals , Changchun , P.R. China.
authors.forename: Han-Lu
authors.initials: HL
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: a Institute of Special Animal and Plant Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) , Changchun , P.R. China and.|b State Key Lab for Molecular Biology of Special Economic Animals , Changchun , P.R. China.
authors.forename: Yang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ya-Han
authors.affiliation: a Institute of Special Animal and Plant Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) , Changchun , P.R. China and.|b State Key Lab for Molecular Biology of Special Economic Animals , Changchun , P.R. China.
authors.forename: Zhuo
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: a Institute of Special Animal and Plant Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) , Changchun , P.R. China and.|b State Key Lab for Molecular Biology of Special Economic Animals , Changchun , P.R. China.
authors.forename: Guang-Yu
authors.initials: GY
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001482:Base Composition; D003062:Codon; D017124:Conserved Sequence; D005589:Foxes / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics*; D023061:Gene Order; D050259:Genes, Mitochondrial; D059646:Genome Size; D054629:Genome, Mitochondrial; D023281:Genomics; D016366:Open Reading Frames; D012045:Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D000073336:Whole Genome Sequencing
chemical_list: D003062:Codon
keywords: Canidae; mitogenome; phylogenetic; silver fox