Complete mitochondrial genome of a Light-vented Bulbul subspecies, Pycnonotus sinensis hainanus (Passeriformes: Pycnonotidae)

Abstract

In this study, we present the complete mitochondrial genome of P. s. hainanus, which is spread over Hainan Island, southern China and northern Vietnam, containing 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs), 22 transfer RNA (tRNA) genes, 2 ribosomal RNA genes (srRNA and lrRNA) and 2 extensive heteroplasmic control regions. All protein-coding, rRNA genes have more than 99.0% nucleotide sequence similarity with the previously reported individual of P. s. formosae, except for cox3 and CRs. Notably, we found that the nucleotide sequence of P. s. formosae mtDNA has more similarity with P. taivanus.

• Control regions
• cox3
• mitochondrial genome
• Pycnonotus sinensis hainanus
• Pycnonotidae

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank Binghua Li, Fang Zhang, Weiwei Guo, Jianke Yang, Zhichun Guo for assistance, suggestions, and comments.

Declaration of interest

This study was supported by the Key Laboratory of Biotic Environment and Ecology Safety in Anhui Province, the Key Program of Natural Science Foundation of the Anhui Higher Education Institutions (No. KJ2013A127), and the Anhui Provincial Natural Science Foundation (No. 1308085MC38). The authors report no conflicts of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the paper.

Notice of Correction:

In the version of this article published online on 11 March 2014, the authors' affiliation address was incorrectly written as ‘Republic of China’. All instances have now been changed to ‘People's Republic of China’ in this version, amended on 15 July 2014.