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Abstract
The mitochondrial genome of Zootoca vivipara (Squamata: Lacertidae) is a circular molecule of 17,046 bp in size and consists of 13 protein-coding genes, 22 transfer RNAs, 2 ribosomal RNAs and a control region. The A + T content of the overall base composition of H-strand is 63.43% (T: 30.95%, C: 24.03%, A: 32.48%, G: 12.54%). Protein-coding genes begin with ATG as start codon except COII with GTG. ND1, ATP8, ATP6, ND4L, ND5 and Cyt b genes are terminated with TAA as stop codon, ND2 ends with TAG, COI and ND6 end with AGG, and the other four protein-coding genes end with an incomplete stop codon (a single stop nucleotide T).
Acknowledgements
We thank Tian-Bao Fu (deceased), Guo-Hua Ding, Bo, Li, Yu-Fen Liu, and Dan-Na Yu for help in the laboratory.
Declaration of interest
This work was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (#31172079). The authors report no conflicts of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the paper.
Nucleotide sequence accession number
The complete genome sequence of Z. vivipara has been assigned GenBank accession number KM401599.