Complete mitochondrial genome of a woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) from Maly Lyakhovsky Island (New Siberian Islands, Russia) and its phylogenetic assessment

Igor V Kornienko; Tatiana G Faleeva; Natalia V Oreshkova; Semyon E Grigoriev; Lena V Grigoreva; Evgeniy P Simonov; Anna I Kolesnikova; Yuliya A Putintseva; Konstantin V Krutovsky

doi:10.1080/23802359.2018.1473721

Complete mitochondrial genome of a woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) from Maly Lyakhovsky Island (New Siberian Islands, Russia) and its phylogenetic assessment

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2018 May 18;3(2):596-598. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2018.1473721.

Authors

Igor V Kornienko^{1

2}, Tatiana G Faleeva³, Natalia V Oreshkova^{4

5}, Semyon E Grigoriev⁶, Lena V Grigoreva⁶, Evgeniy P Simonov⁵, Anna I Kolesnikova⁵, Yuliya A Putintseva⁵, Konstantin V Krutovsky^{5

7

8

9}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Strategic Research, Southern Scientific Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences, Rostov-on-Don, Russian Federation.
² Laboratory of Biological Objects Identification, Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russian Federation.
³ Department of Forensic Medicine, Mechnikov North-Western State Medical University, Russian Federation.
⁴ Laboratory of Forest Genetics and Selection, V. N. Sukachev Institute of Forest, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation.
⁵ Laboratory of Forest Genomics, Genome Research and Education Center, Siberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation.
⁶ Institute of Applied Ecology of the North, North-Eastern Federal University, Yakutsk, Russian Federation.
⁷ Department of Forest Genetics and Forest Tree Breeding, Georg-August University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
⁸ Laboratory of Population Genetics, Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation.
⁹ Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA.

Abstract

We present a complete sequence and an annotation of the mitochondrial genome of the woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) found in 2012 on Maly Lyakhovsky Island (North-Eastern Siberia, Russia). The genome was 16,851 bp long and contained 13 protein-coding, 22 tRNA, and 2 rRNA genes. It was AT reach (61.3%) with A = 32.9%, T = 28.4%, C = 25.3%, and G = 13.4%.

Keywords: Ancient DNA; Maly Lyakhovsky island; North-Eastern Siberia; elephantidae; mitogenome.