《Complete mitochondrial genome sequence of Bonasa sewerzowi （Galliformes Phasianidae） and phylogenetic analysis.》.pdf

ZoologicalSystematics，39(3)：359-371(July2014)，DOI：10．11865／z ORlGlNALARTlCLE CompletemitochondrialgenomesequenceofBonasa sewerzowi(Galliformes：Phasianidae)andphylogenetic analysis Xue—JuanLi，YuanHuang ，Fu．M inLei2 Co-InnovationCenterforQinbaRegions’SustainableDevelopment,CollegeofLfieSciences,ShaanxiNormalUniversity,Sian 710062,China KeyLaboratoryofZoologicalSystematicsandEvolutionInstituteofZoology,ChineseAcademyofSciences，Beijing100101，China Correspondingauthors，E—mail．yuanh@snnu．edu．c leifm@ioz．ac．cn Abstract Bonasasewerzowi，thesmallestandmostsoutherlydistributedgrousespeciesin theworld，isabirdendemictoChina．ThepopulationofB．sewerzowihadshownadeclining trend．whichmadeittobetheendangeredspeciesintheChinaRedDataBooknadCategoryI ofnationallyprotectedanimals．Sofar,however,moststudiesabouthtisspeciesweremainly focusedonhtemorphologicalnadecologicalaspects．InordertofurthersutdyhtefeatureofB． sewerzowi．htecompletemitochondrialgenome(mitogenome)ofB．sewerzowfwassequenced by Illumina Hiseq 2000 high—throughputsequencing．Then，we focused on comparative genomicsoftwoBonasaspeciestofindtheirchraacteristics．Finally,phylogeneticpositionof Bonasawasmadebased onmemitogenomedataset．Ourresultsrevealedhtat：f1)hte mitogenomeofB．sewerzowi，consistingof16658bp，displayedtypicalgenomeorgna ization nadgeneorderfoundinohterpreviouslydeterminedGalliformesmitogenomes；f2)the structureandcompositionofmitogenomesweresimilra bewt eenB．sewerzowinadB．bonasia； (3)themonophyly ofBonasawaswellsupported，whichhad acloserphylogenetic relationshipwihtMe