| Title |
The complete mitochondrial genome structure of snow leopard Panthera uncia
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Molecular Biology Reports, April 2008
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| DOI | 10.1007/s11033-008-9257-9 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Lei Wei, Xiaobing Wu, Zhigang Jiang |
| Abstract |
The complete mitochondrial genome (mtDNA) of snow leopard Panthera uncia was obtained by using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique based on the PCR fragments of 30 primers we designed. The entire mtDNA sequence was 16 773 base pairs (bp) in length, and the base composition was: A-5,357 bp (31.9%); C-4,444 bp (26.5%); G-2,428 bp (14.5%); T-4,544 bp (27.1%). The structural characteristics [0] of the P. uncia mitochondrial genome were highly similar to these of Felis catus, Acinonyx jubatus, Neofelis nebulosa and other mammals. However, we found several distinctive features of the mitochondrial genome of Panthera unica. First, the termination codon of COIII was TAA, which differed from those of F. catus, A. jubatus and N. nebulosa. Second, tRNA(Ser) ((AGY)), which lacked the ''DHU'' arm, could not be folded into the typical cloverleaf-shaped structure. Third, in the control region, a long repetitive sequence in RS-2 (32 bp) region was found with 2 repeats while one short repetitive segment (9 bp) was found with 15 repeats in the RS-3 region. We performed phylogenetic analysis based on a 3 816 bp concatenated sequence of 12S rRNA, 16S rRNA, ND2, ND4, ND5, Cyt b and ATP8 for P. uncia and other related species, the result indicated that P. uncia and P. leo were the sister species, which was different from the previous findings. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 4 | 2% |
| India | 3 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 1% |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | <1% |
| Turkey | 1 | <1% |
| Portugal | 1 | <1% |
| Czechia | 1 | <1% |
| Colombia | 1 | <1% |
| Iran, Islamic Republic of | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 4 | 2% |
| Unknown | 152 | 89% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 42 | 25% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 37 | 22% |
| Student > Master | 31 | 18% |
| Student > Bachelor | 15 | 9% |
| Other | 11 | 6% |
| Other | 26 | 15% |
| Unknown | 9 | 5% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 103 | 60% |
| Environmental Science | 35 | 20% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 7 | 4% |
| Computer Science | 3 | 2% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 2 | 1% |
| Other | 7 | 4% |
| Unknown | 14 | 8% |
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