Abstract
In this paper, we report the complete mitochondrial genome of Leiolepis reevesii (Sauria, Agamidae), which is a circular molecule of 16,908 bp in size and consists of 13 protein-coding genes, 2 ribosomal RNAs, 22 transfer RNAs and a control region. The A+T content of overall base composition of H-strand is 59.8% (T: 25.1%, C: 27.5%, A: 34.7%, G: 12.7%). Some short microsatellite-like repeat regions (polyA and polyT) are scattered in the control region. All the results provide powerful data to further study of the molecular systematics, species identification and conservation genetics.
Declaration of interest
We thank Dan-Na Yu for help in the laboratory. Financial support was provided by grants from the Natural Science Foundation of China (30860046 and 31270571) and the Hainan Key Program of Science and Technology (ZDXM20110008). The authors report no conflicts of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the paper.