Complete mitochondrial genome of Aethia cristatella (Charadriiformes: Alcidae)

Abstract

The complete mitochondrial genome sequence of the crested auklet, Aethia cristatella, was obtained using high-throughput whole genome sequencing. This is the first report indicating that the complete mitochondrial genome of Aethia has been sequenced. The circular genome is 16,848 bp in length. It contains thirteen protein-coding genes, twenty-two transfer RNAs, two ribosomal RNAs, and a control region. The ND3 gene possessed an insertion mutation. Maximum likelihood phylogenetic analysis demonstrated that A. cristatella is the sister clade of P. aleuticus clustered with the Alcinae species, belonging to Alcidae.

Complex population structure of the Atlantic puffin revealed by whole genome analyses

“…This assembly contains 4,522 of the 4,915 genes (92.0%) of complete protein-coding sequences from the avian set of the OrthoDB v9 database (Supplementary Data 1 ). We also assembled the puffin mitogenome (length of 17,084 bp) with a similar arrangement of genomic elements as other members within the Alcidae 39 , 40 (Fig. S1 , Table S2 ).…”

Complex population structure of the Atlantic puffin revealed by whole genome analyses

“…This assembly contains 4,522 of the 4,915 genes (92.0%) of complete protein coding sequences from the avian set of the OrthoDB v9 database (Table S1). We also assembled the puffin mitogenome (length of 17,084 bp) with a similar arrangement of genomic elements as other members within the bird family Alcidae 36,37 ( Figure S1, Table S3). For the 72 resequenced specimens, we analyzed a total of 5.77 billion paired reads, obtaining an average fold-coverage of 7X (range 3.0 -10) for the nuclear genome and 591X (5.3 -1800) for the mitochondrial genome per specimen ( Figure 1a, Table S4).…”