title: Phylogenetic relationships among four new complete mitogenome sequences of Pelophylax (Amphibia: Anura) from the Balkans and Cyprus.
abstract: We present the full-length mitogenome sequences of four European water frog species: Pelophylax cypriensis, P. epeiroticus, P. kurtmuelleri and P. shqipericus. The mtDNA size varied from 17,363 to 17,895 bp, and its organization with the LPTF tRNA gene cluster preceding the 12 S rRNA gene displayed the typical Neobatrachian arrangement. Maximum likelihood and Bayesian inference revealed a well-resolved mtDNA phylogeny of seven European Pelophylax species. The uncorrected p-distance for among Pelophylax mitogenomes was 9.6 (range 0.01-0.13). Most divergent was the P. shqipericus mitogenome, clustering with the "P. lessonae" group, in contrast to the other three new Pelophylax mitogenomes related to the "P. bedriagae/ridibundus" lineage. The new mitogenomes resolve ambiguities of the phylogenetic placement of P. cretensis and P. epeiroticus.
authors: a Department of Comparative Anatomy , Institute of Zoology, Jagiellonian University , Kraków , Poland .
authors: Sebastian
authors: S
authors: Hofman
authors: a Department of Comparative Anatomy , Institute of Zoology, Jagiellonian University , Kraków , Poland .|b Institute of Environmental Sciences, Jagiellonian University , Kraków , Poland , and.
authors: Maciej
authors: M
authors: Pabijan
authors: a Department of Comparative Anatomy , Institute of Zoology, Jagiellonian University , Kraków , Poland .
authors: Artur
authors: A
authors: Osikowski
authors: c Institute of Cytology, Russian Academy of Sciences , St. Petersburg , Russia.
authors: Spartak N
authors: SN
authors: Litvinchuk
authors: a Department of Comparative Anatomy , Institute of Zoology, Jagiellonian University , Kraków , Poland .
authors: Jacek M
authors: JM
authors: Szymura
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001001:Anura / Q000235:genetics; D063368:Balkan Peninsula; D001482:Base Composition; D003535:Cyprus; D023061:Gene Order; D020459:Genes, rRNA; D059646:Genome Size; D054629:Genome, Mitochondrial; D008928:Mitochondria / Q000235:genetics*; D009245:NADH Dehydrogenase / Q000235:genetics; D010802:Phylogeny; D012343:RNA, Transfer / Q000235:genetics; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D012343:RNA, Transfer; D009245:NADH Dehydrogenase
keywords: mtDNA; phylogeography; water frogs