title: The complete mitochondrial genome of the small-toothed forest hedgehog Mesechinus miodon (Eulipotyphla: Erinaceidae).
abstract: The complete mitochondrial genome of the small-toothed forest hedgehog Mesechinus miodon (Eulipotyphla: Erinaceidae) has been reconstructed from Illumina sequencing data. The circular genome is 16 842 bp long, comprising 22 transfer RNAs (tRNAs), 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs), two ribosomal RNAs (rRNAs), and one control region. All PCGs are initiated with ATR (ATA/ATG) codons, except for nad4 with GTG as its initiation codon. Two PCGs (cox3 and nad4) harbor an incomplete termination codon T, while the others are terminated with TAA (atp6, cox1, cox2, nad1, nad2, nad3, nad4l, nad5, and nad6), TAG (atp8) or AGA (cytb). The base composition is highly biased (34.9% A, 19.7% C, 11.9% G, and 33.5% T for the light strand) with an overall A + T content of 68.4%. Phylogenetic analysis indicated that M. miodon is more closely related to the consubfamilial long-eared hedgehog Hemiechinus auritus than to those within the order Eulipotyphla.
authors.affiliation: a Shaanxi Institute of Zoology , Xi'an, Shaanxi , PR China and.|b College of Life Sciences, Hainan Normal University , Haikou , Hainan , PR China.
authors.forename: Fei
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Kong
authors.affiliation: a Shaanxi Institute of Zoology , Xi'an, Shaanxi , PR China and.
authors.forename: Jia-Yan
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.affiliation: a Shaanxi Institute of Zoology , Xi'an, Shaanxi , PR China and.
authors.forename: Jian-Min
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Guo
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001482:Base Composition; D018387:Codon, Initiator; D018388:Codon, Terminator; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D050259:Genes, Mitochondrial; D054629:Genome, Mitochondrial; D006364:Hedgehogs / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics*; D059014:High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing; D010802:Phylogeny; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA
chemical_list: D018387:Codon, Initiator; D018388:Codon, Terminator
keywords: Hedgehog; illumina sequencing; mitogenome; next-generation sequencing