The mitochondrial genomes of Atlas Geckos (Quedenfeldtia): mitogenome assembly from transcriptomes and anchored hybrid enrichment datasets

Mariana L Lyra; Ulrich Joger; Ulrich Schulte; Tahar Slimani; El Hassan El Mouden; Abdellah Bouazza; Sven Künzel; Alan R Lemmon; Emily Moriarty Lemmon; Miguel Vences

doi:10.1080/23802359.2017.1339212

The mitochondrial genomes of Atlas Geckos (Quedenfeldtia): mitogenome assembly from transcriptomes and anchored hybrid enrichment datasets

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2017 Jun 14;2(1):356-358. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2017.1339212.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, UNESP - Universidade Estadual Paulista, Rio Claro, Brazil.
² Staatliches Naturhistorisches Museum, Braunschweig, Germany.
³ Büro für Faunistische Gutachten, Borgholzhausen, Germany.
⁴ Faculty of Sciences, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics Laboratory, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech, Morocco.
⁵ Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany.
⁶ Department of Scientific Computing, Florida State University, Dirac Science Library, Tallahassee, FL, USA.
⁷ Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA.
⁸ Zoological Institute, Technical University of Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany.

Abstract

The nearly complete mitogenomes of the two species of North African Atlas geckos, Quedenfeldtia moerens and Q. trachyblepharus were assembled from anchored hybrid enrichment data and RNAseq data. Congruent assemblies were obtained for four samples included in both datasets. We recovered the 13 protein-coding genes, 22 tRNA genes, and two rRNA genes for both species, including partial control region. The order of genes agrees with that of other geckos.

Keywords: Gekkota; Morocco; Quedenfeldtia moerens; Quedenfeldtia trachyblepharus; Sphaerodactylidae; Squamata.