The complete mitochondrial genome of Malayan Gaur (Bos gaurus hubbacki) from Peninsular Malaysia

Norsyamimi Rosli; Frankie Thomas Sitam; Jeffrine Japning Rovie-Ryan; Han Ming Gan; Yin Peng Lee; Hartini Ithnin; Millawati Gani; Mohd Firdaus Ariff Abdul Razak; Badrul Munir Md-Zain; Mohd Tajuddin Abdullah

doi:10.1080/23802359.2019.1640085

The complete mitochondrial genome of Malayan Gaur (Bos gaurus hubbacki) from Peninsular Malaysia

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2019 Jul 13;4(2):2535-2536. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2019.1640085.

Authors

Norsyamimi Rosli^{1

2}, Frankie Thomas Sitam^{1

2}, Jeffrine Japning Rovie-Ryan^{1

2}, Han Ming Gan^{3

4}, Yin Peng Lee^{3

4}, Hartini Ithnin¹, Millawati Gani¹, Mohd Firdaus Ariff Abdul Razak¹, Badrul Munir Md-Zain⁵, Mohd Tajuddin Abdullah^{2

6}

Affiliations

¹ National Wildlife Forensic Laboratory (NWFL), Department of Wildlife and National Parks, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
² Institute of Tropical Biodiversity and Sustainable Development, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Terengganu, Malaysia.
³ Department of Genomics Facility, Monash University Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia.
⁴ School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment, Deakin University, Australia.
⁵ School of Environment and Natural Resource Sciences, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia.
⁶ School of Marine and Environmental Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Terengganu, Malaysia.

Abstract

Here, we present the first complete mitochondrial genome of Malayan Gaur (Bos gaurus hubbacki) inferred using next-generation sequencing. The mitogenome is 16,367 bp in length with the structural organization of a typical bovine mitochondrial arrangement comprising 13 protein-coding genes, 21 tRNAs, and 2 rRNAs. No internal stop codon was found in the protein-coding genes. Phylogenetic tree analysis revealed that Malayan gaur is more closely related to Burmese banteng instead of gaur.

Keywords: Malayan gaur; de novo assembly; mitogenome; next-generation sequencing.