title: Complete mitochondrial genome of Red-throated Conure (Psittacara rubritorquis): its comparison with mitogenome of Socorro Conure (Psittacara brevipes).
abstract: According to some taxonomists the Red-throated Conure (Psittacara rubritorquis) is considered a subspecies of Green Conure (Psittacara holochlora). Some other classifications treat rubritorquis as a separate species based on relatively minor morphological differences between both species/subspecies. So far, taxonomic position of P. rubritorquis was determined by molecular researches using only ND2 gene sequence or incomplete combined mitochondrial ND2, COI and CYTB gene sequences. Obtained outcomes found that P. rubritorquis should be treated as a subspecies of P. holochlora. However, the lack of P. h. brewsterii and P. h. strenua samples as well as incompleteness of combined mitochondrial sequence do not exclude opposite scenario. Therefore, we sequenced P. rubritorquis mitogenome to gain a source of molecular data appropriate for future examination of evolutionary diversification of the P. holochlora group.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Genetics , Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences , Wroclaw , Poland and.
authors.forename: Adam Dawid
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Urantowka
authors.affiliation: b Department of Genomics, Faculty of Biotechnology , Wrocław University , Wrocław , Poland.
authors.forename: Paweł
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Mackiewicz
authors.affiliation: b Department of Genomics, Faculty of Biotechnology , Wrocław University , Wrocław , Poland.
authors.forename: Aleksandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kroczak
authors.affiliation: a Department of Genetics , Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences , Wroclaw , Poland and.
authors.forename: Tomasz
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Strzała
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001482:Base Composition; D003062:Codon; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods; D023061:Gene Order; D050259:Genes, Mitochondrial; D059646:Genome Size; D054629:Genome, Mitochondrial; D023281:Genomics; D016366:Open Reading Frames; D010311:Parrots / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics*; D012045:Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D000073336:Whole Genome Sequencing
chemical_list: D003062:Codon
keywords: Arini; Psittacara rubritorquis; Psittaciformes; Red-throated Conure; mitogenome