Mitochondrial genome of Plateau zokor Myospalax baileyi

Abstract

Plateau zokors Myospalax baileyi are subterranean rodents and endemic to the cold and hypoxic (2800–4300 m above sea level) climate of the farm, prairie, alpine prairie, and meadow habitats across the Tibetan plateau. The complete mitochondrial (mt) genome of M. baileyi has been determined. Our results showed that the total length of the mitogenome was 16,351 bp, and had a gene content of 13 protein coding, 22 tRNAs and 2 rRNAs. Except for the seven tRNA and Nd6 genes, all other mt genes are encoded on the heavy strand. The overall base composition of the heavy strand is 33.65% A, 29.65% T, 24.42% C, and 12.28% G, with an AT content of 63.3%.

Keywords::

• Mitochondrial
• Myospalax baileyi
• genome

Declaration of interest: This work was supported by the “973” Project of China Ministry of Science and Technology (No. 2007CB109106). The authors report no conflicts of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the paper.