title: Complete mitochondrial genomes of the white-browed piculet (Sasia ochracea, Picidae) and pale-billed woodpecker (Campephilus guatemalensis, Picidae).
abstract: The mitochondrial genome of the white-browed piculet Sasia ochracea (Piciformes, Picidae) and the pale-billed woodpecker Campephilus guatemalensis (Piciformes, Picidae) were sequenced using a mixed strategy of Sanger and next-generation sequencing methods. The size of the circular mitochondrial genomes were 16 908 and 16 856 bp, respectively, and include 13 protein-coding genes, 22 transfer tRNAs, 2 ribosomal RNAs, a control region and a reduced pseudo control region. The functional control region was located between the tRNAThr and tRNAPro, as found in the two other Piciformes for which complete mtDNA data are available. The length of the pseudo-control region in the white-browed piculet (103 bp) and pale-billed woodpecker (87 bp) is similar to the size of that region in Dryocopus pileatus (60 bp) and much shorter that the length of this region in Pteroglossus azara (1493 bp), suggesting that size reduction occurred before the last common ancestor of the piculets and woodpeckers.
authors.affiliation: a Département Systématique et Evolution, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, UMR7205 Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité CNRS MNHN UPMC EPHE, Sorbonne Universités , Paris , France , and.|b Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, UMS MNHN/CNRS 2700 Outils et Méthodes de la Systématique Intégrative (OMSI) , Paris , France.
authors.forename: Jérôme
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fuchs
authors.affiliation: a Département Systématique et Evolution, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, UMR7205 Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité CNRS MNHN UPMC EPHE, Sorbonne Universités , Paris , France , and.|b Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, UMS MNHN/CNRS 2700 Outils et Méthodes de la Systématique Intégrative (OMSI) , Paris , France.
authors.forename: Jean-Marc
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Pons
authors.affiliation: a Département Systématique et Evolution, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, UMR7205 Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité CNRS MNHN UPMC EPHE, Sorbonne Universités , Paris , France , and.|b Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, UMS MNHN/CNRS 2700 Outils et Méthodes de la Systématique Intégrative (OMSI) , Paris , France.
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Pasquet
authors.affiliation: b Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, UMS MNHN/CNRS 2700 Outils et Méthodes de la Systématique Intégrative (OMSI) , Paris , France.
authors.forename: Céline
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bonillo
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D030161:Avian Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D001482:Base Composition; D001483:Base Sequence; D001717:Birds / Q000235:genetics*; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D049810:Genetic Speciation; D054629:Genome, Mitochondrial; D019901:Locus Control Region; D024101:Mitochondrial Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D010802:Phylogeny; D012343:RNA, Transfer / Q000235:genetics; D000073336:Whole Genome Sequencing
chemical_list: D030161:Avian Proteins; D024101:Mitochondrial Proteins; D012343:RNA, Transfer
keywords: Mitochondrial genome size; pale-billed woodpecker; pseudo-control region; white-browed piculet