The complete mitochondrial genome of the Hipposideros pendleburyi (Pendlebury's leaf-nosed bat) an endemic species in Thailand

Abstract

This study presents the first complete mitochondrial genome of the Hipposideros pendleburyi (Pendlebury's leaf-nosed bat), an endemic species in Thailand. The mitochondrial genome was 16,820 bp in length and contains 13 protein-coding genes, 2 ribosomal RNA genes, 22 transfer RNA genes, and a control region. The overall base composition was 31.5% A, 26.2% T, 28.3% C, and 14.0% G. A maximum-likelihood tree revealed that H. pendleburyi was grouped with Hipposideros armiger within the Hipposideridae clade, which has Rhinolophidae as a sister clade.

Keywords:

• Hipposideros pendleburyi
• Pendlebury's Leaf-nosed bat
• mitochondrial genome

Acknowledgments

We are grateful to the National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), Thailand for financial support. We thank Awatsaya Pimsai and Sakiya Morlor at Prince of Songkla University (PSU) for help with fieldwork and sample collection.

Disclosure statement

The authors declare no competing financial interests.

Data availability statement

The genome sequence data that support the findings of this study are openly available in GenBank of NCBI at (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/) under the accession no. MZ196220.1. The associated BioProject, SRA, and Bio-Sample numbers are PRJNA763996, SRR15927285, and SAMN21465651 respectively.

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Funding

This work was supported by the National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), Thailand under Grant number: P-19-52245.