title: Complete mitochondrial genome of Lycodon flavozonatum and implications for Colubridae taxonomy.
abstract: Lycodon flavozonatum, a species of Colubcridae family, is mainly inhabited in hilly region of forest in South China, India, Myanmar, and Vietnam. In this study, the complete mtDNA of L. flavozonatum is 17 172 bp long, which contains 13 protein-coding genes, 22 tRNA genes, two rRNA (12S and 16S rRNA), and two control regions and a stem-loop region. Most of these genes are encoded in the H-strand; only ND6, stem-loop and other nine tRNA genes are on the L-strand. The phylogenetic tree among the 14 Serpentiformes species was divided into three major clade; Lycodon makes up the first clade, which showed a sister relationship to the second clade, Elaphe; Hypsiglena forms the third clade and is sister to Lycodon and Elaphe. And the species of L. flavozonatum which we studied belongs to the first clade.
authors.affiliation: a School of Life Science, Anhui University , Hefei , Anhui , People's Republic of China and.
authors.forename: Mei
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ding
authors.affiliation: b Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences under Ministry of Environmental Protection , Nanjing , Jiangsu , China.
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.affiliation: a School of Life Science, Anhui University , Hefei , Anhui , People's Republic of China and.
authors.forename: Lifu
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Qian
authors.affiliation: a School of Life Science, Anhui University , Hefei , Anhui , People's Republic of China and.
authors.forename: Tao
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Pan
authors.affiliation: a School of Life Science, Anhui University , Hefei , Anhui , People's Republic of China and.
authors.forename: Baowei
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001482:Base Composition; D017812:Colubridae / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics; D004275:DNA, Ribosomal / Q000235:genetics; D023061:Gene Order; D059646:Genome Size; D054629:Genome, Mitochondrial; D008928:Mitochondria / Q000235:genetics*; D010802:Phylogeny; D012343:RNA, Transfer / Q000235:genetics; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D004275:DNA, Ribosomal; D012343:RNA, Transfer
keywords: Genome; Lycodon flavozonatum; phylogenetic tree