title: The complete mitochondrial genome of the White-throated Tinamou, Tinamus guttatus (Tinamiformes, Tinamidae).
abstract: The White-throated Tinamou, Tinamus guttatus (Tinamiformes, Tinamidae) is a species of the family Tinamidae. Herein, we firstly reported the complete mitochondrial genome of White-throated Tinamou. The length of mitogenome was 16 750 bp, and composed of 13 protein-coding genes, 22 tRNA genes, 2 rRNA genes, and 1 putative misc-feature region. Most protein-coding genes started with a traditional ATG codon, but specially, COX1 and COX2 initiated with an infrequent start codon GTG instead, ND3 and ND5 initiated with ATA instead. Protein-coding genes terminated with the mitochondria stop codon (TAA/TAG/AGG/AGA) or a single base(A/T). The mitogenome structural organization was identical to the closely related species Tinamus major. The GC content was 42.66%. To verify the accuracy and utility of new determined mitogenome sequences, we constructed the species phylogenetic tree with the 12 protein-coding genes of Tinamus guttatus together with nine other closely species. We expected that using the full mitogenome to address taxonomic issues and study the related evolution events.
authors.affiliation: a BGI Education Center, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences , Shenzhen , China .|b BGI-Shenzhen , Shenzhen , China , and.
authors.forename: Mei
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: An
authors.affiliation: a BGI Education Center, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences , Shenzhen , China .|b BGI-Shenzhen , Shenzhen , China , and.
authors.forename: Zhi
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: b BGI-Shenzhen , Shenzhen , China , and.|c College of Life Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing , China.
authors.forename: Xiangfeng
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: b BGI-Shenzhen , Shenzhen , China , and.
authors.forename: Shuang
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yang
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001482:Base Composition / Q000235:genetics; D001717:Birds / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics*; D018387:Codon, Initiator / Q000235:genetics; D018388:Codon, Terminator / Q000235:genetics; D054629:Genome, Mitochondrial / Q000235:genetics*; D010802:Phylogeny; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA
chemical_list: D018387:Codon, Initiator; D018388:Codon, Terminator
keywords: Mitogenome; Tinamus; Tinamus guttatus; White-throated Tinamou