The complete mitochondrial genome of the Sitta villosa (Passeriformes: Sittidae) from China

Abstract

We describe the whole mtDNA genome of the Chinese nuthatch Sitta villosa in Tianlong Mountain, Shanxi, China. It is actually a circular molecular of 16,816 bp in length and consists 13 protein-coding genes, 22 transfer-RNA genes, 2 ribosomal-RNA genes, and 1 control region (D-loop, 1,243 bp in length). The nucleotide composition is 30.3% A, 30.1% C, 14.5% G, 25.1% T. The phylogenetic analysis based on the maximum likelihood method revealed the relationship of S. villosa was close to the three reported species within the same genus Sitta, which are S. nagaensis, S. himalayensis and S. carolinensis.

Keywords:

• Mitochondrial genome
• Sitta villosa
• phylogenetic analysis

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Data availability statement

The data that support the findings of this study are openly available in GenBank of NCBI at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/, reference number MT444149.

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Funding

This work was supported by the National Nature Science Foundation of China (31870512), and the Fundamental Research Funds for Central Universities (2572014CA03). This study also got financial support from Heilongjiang Touyan Innovation Team Program for Forest Ecology and Conservation.