The complete mitochondrial genome of Acanthosaura lepidogaster (Squamata: Agamidae)

Abstract

In this paper, we report the complete mitochondrial genome of Acanthosaura lepidogaster (Squamata, Agamidae), which is a circular molecule of 16 899 bp in size and consists of 13 protein-coding genes, 2 ribosomal RNAs, 22 transfer RNAs, and a control region. The overall base composition is as follows: T (22.8%), C (30.5%), A (32.3%), and G (14.4%). We constructed a phylogeny that included for 10 species of Leiolepidinae lizards and one outgroup Leiocephalus personatus constructed in BEAST, based on 15 mitochondrial genes (12S, 16S, ND1, ND2, COI, COII, ATP8, ATP6, COIII, ND3, ND4L, ND4, ND5, ND6, and cytochrome b). The topology of the phylogenetic tree is broadly similar to that mentioned by Pyron et al.

Complete mitochondrial genome of Japalura flaviceps: Deep insights into the phylogeny and gene rearrangements of Agamidae species

“…The results of ML and BI analyses consistently divided these Agamidae lizards into six subfamilies: (((((Agaminae, Draconinae), Amphibolurinae), Hydrosaurinae), Uromastycinae), Leiolepinae) (Fig. 4, 5A), which was different from the previous studies: (((((Agaminae, Draconinae), Hydrosaurinae), Amphibolurinae), Leiolepinae), Uromastycinae) [15,17,21] (Fig. 5B, D, E) or ((((Agaminae, Draconinae), (Hydrosaurinae, Amphibolurinae)), Leiolepinae), Uromastycinae) [9,18] (Fig.…”

“…The intergenic spacers varied from 1 to 29 bp in size, with a total length of 82 bp, and the longest one (29 bp in size) was located between the COI and trnS 1 genes. Overlapping nucleotides were found between six pairs of genes, with the length varying from 1 to 10 bp, and the biggest one was located between ATP8 and ATP6 genes, which was the same as A. lepidogaster [17,18]. As is the case with other Agamidae mitogenomes [15,17,18,21], the nucleotide composition of the J. flaviceps mitogenome was biased towards A and T with an average 58.1% A + T content (T 23.7%, C 28.4%, A 34.4% and G 13.5%) (Table 3).…”

“…Overlapping nucleotides were found between six pairs of genes, with the length varying from 1 to 10 bp, and the biggest one was located between ATP8 and ATP6 genes, which was the same as A. lepidogaster [17,18]. As is the case with other Agamidae mitogenomes [15,17,18,21], the nucleotide composition of the J. flaviceps mitogenome was biased towards A and T with an average 58.1% A + T content (T 23.7%, C 28.4%, A 34.4% and G 13.5%) (Table 3). The complete nucleotide sequence of mitogenome of J. flaviceps was deposited in GenBank with the accession number of KX881372.…”

“…Lizard mitogenomes are generally a small molecule containing 37 coding genes: 13 protein-coding (PCGs), 22 transfer-RNA-coding (tRNAs) and two ribosomal-RNA-coding genes (rRNAs) [14][15][16][17][18][19]. Because of their valuable features (e.g.…”

Acanthosaura meridiona sp. nov. (Squamata: Agamidae), a new short-horned lizard from southern Thailand

“…Three specimens of A. crucigera from each region (western and southern regions, total six specimens) were examined for molecular data comparing with other taxa of Acanthosaura species from GenBank (Macey et al, 1997(Macey et al, , 2000Zug et al, 2006;Okajima & Kumazawa, 2010;Wood et al, 2010;Yu et al, 2015;Trivalairat et al, 2020) (Table 1). DNA was extracted from liver samples with a TIANamp Genomic DNA Kit (catalog number DP304 -02; TIANGEN Biotech (Beijing) Co., Ltd., Beijing).…”