Species affiliation of the complete mitochondrial genome of Daurian ground squirrel Spermophilus dauricus Brandt 1843 (Rodentia Sciuridae)

摘要

The complete mitochondrial genome of Daurian ground squirrel (Spermophilus dauricus) (Genbank NCBI {"type":"entrez-nucleotide","attrs":{"text":"KR534854","term_id":"828348774","term_text":"KR534854"}}KR534854) was tested by comparison with mtDNA markers isolated from Sciurus vulgaris mitochondrial genome and S. dauricus samples with reliable species diagnose. A high similarity between {"type":"entrez-nucleotide","attrs":{"text":"KR534854","term_id":"828348774","term_text":"KR534854"}}KR534854 and S. vulgaris was found but not with S. dauricus. It seems that the mitochondrion ({"type":"entrez-nucleotide","attrs":{"text":"KR534854","term_id":"828348774","term_text":"KR534854"}}KR534854) belongs not to S. dauricus but to one of the species of the genus Sciurus. Monophylies of Xerinae and Sciurinae were tested by using mtDNA control region. The monophyly of Xerinae is supported by mtDNA data provided the {"type":"entrez-nucleotide","attrs":{"text":"KR534854","term_id":"828348774","term_text":"KR534854"}}KR534854 sequence is excluded from an analysis.