The complete mitochondrial genome of the ruby-topaz hummingbird Chrysolampis mosquitus through Illumina sequencing

Abstract

The complete mitochondrial genome of the Ruby-Topaz Hummingbird, Chrysolampis mosquitus, was determined using 1/11 of an Illumina Hi-seq lane ran with a Nextera kit. We assembled the mitogenome in a two-step approach using both (i) de novo (SOAPdenovo-Trans) and (ii) reference-based (MITObim) genome assembly software. A circular molecule containing 17,767 bp was assembled. As expected for most vertebrates, the C. mosquitus mitogenome contained 13 protein-coding genes, 22 transfer RNA, 2 ribosomal RNA genes, and 1 non-coding control region. We assembled the whole mitogenome using 0.45% of the total amount of reads and produced a high-coverage mitochondrial genome (>1000×). We deposited the assembled mitogenome into GenBank (accession number KJ619585).

• Genome assembly
• hummingbird
• mitogenome

Declaration of interest

This work was supported by the Brazilian funding agencies FAPERJ (Project number E26/111.753/2012) and CNPq. The authors report no conflicts of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the paper.