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The first mitochondrial genome data of an old world fruit bat, Cynopterus sphinx from Malaysia

Jahari PNS 1 , Mohd Azman S 2 , Munian K 2 , Zakaria NA 2 , Omar MSS 3 , Richter SR 4 Show all authors , Mohd Salleh F 1

Affiliations 

  • 1 Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Science, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor, Malaysia
  • 2 Forest Biodiversity Division, Forest Research Institute Malaysia, Kepong, Malaysia
  • 3 Faculty of Applied Sciences and Technology, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, Pagoh Higher Education Hub, Muar, Malaysia
  • 4 Section for Evolutionary Genomics, The GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Mitochondrial DNA B Resour, 2021 Jan 12;6(1):53-55.
PMID: 33521264 DOI: 10.1080/23802359.2020.1846472

Abstract

We assembled the complete mitogenome of Cynopterus sphinx (Vahl, 1797) of the family Pteropodidae originating from Malaysia. The total mitogenome size was 16,710bp which consists of 37 genes (13 protein-coding genes, 22 transfer RNA genes, two ribosomal RNA genes and one control region). A phylogenetic and BLASTn result showed the mitogenome sequence in this study varies by nearly 7% (93.48% similarity) from the same species in Cambodia. The next closest match of BLASTn was at 92% similarity to the C. brachyotis. This suggests the species-complex in Cynopterus sp. has given rise to the genetic variability.

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