title: Phylogenetic relationship of Asian badger Meles leucurus amurensis revealed by complete mitochondrial genome.
abstract: The Asian badger (Meles leucurus amurensis) is widely distributed throughout the northeast of China, and plays an important role in regulating the prey population stability of forest eco-system as mesopredators. We first determined and annotated the whole mtDNA genome of the Asian badger Meles leucurus amurensis to better understand the evolutionary relationship of this subspecies. The complete mitogenome is 16 497 bp in length, includes 13 protein-coding genes, 22 tRNA genes, 2 rRNA genes and 1 control region. We built the phylogenetic tree of Asian badger and other 10 most closely Mustelidae species.
authors.affiliation: a College of Wildlife Resources, Northeast Forestry University , Harbin , P. R. China.
authors.forename: Weiwei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.affiliation: a College of Wildlife Resources, Northeast Forestry University , Harbin , P. R. China.
authors.forename: Lan
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.affiliation: a College of Wildlife Resources, Northeast Forestry University , Harbin , P. R. China.
authors.forename: Buyuan
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Tan
authors.affiliation: a College of Wildlife Resources, Northeast Forestry University , Harbin , P. R. China.
authors.forename: Yutang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: a College of Wildlife Resources, Northeast Forestry University , Harbin , P. R. China.
authors.forename: Lina
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: a College of Wildlife Resources, Northeast Forestry University , Harbin , P. R. China.
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hua
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001482:Base Composition; D001483:Base Sequence; D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial; D050259:Genes, Mitochondrial; D059646:Genome Size; D054629:Genome, Mitochondrial; D045969:Mustelidae / Q000235:genetics*; D010802:Phylogeny; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA
chemical_list: D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial
keywords: Asian badger; Meles leucurus amurensis; mtDNA genome; phylogenetic relationship