The first complete mitogenome of Australia's largest raptor, the wedge-tailed eagle (Aquila audax)

Sarker, Subir; Das, Shubhagata; FORWOOD, JADE; Raidal, Shane R

doi:10.26181/13139528.v2

The first complete mitogenome of Australia's largest raptor, the wedge-tailed eagle (Aquila audax)

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posted on 2023-10-26, 23:51 authored by Subir SarkerSubir Sarker, Shubhagata Das, JADE FORWOODJADE FORWOOD, Shane R Raidal

© 2019, © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. In this paper, we report the genomic architecture of a complete mitogenome from a Wedge-tailed eagle (Aquila audax). The mitogenome sequence was circular, and 17,494 bp in length. Compared to other members of the family Accipitridae, the genome encoded a conserved structure consisting of 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs), two rRNA genes, 22 tRNA genes, a repeat region and a control region (D-loop), with all protein-coding sequences started with methionine. The lengths of 12S and 16S ribosomal RNA were 971 bp and 1545 bp, respectively, and were located between tRNA-Phe and tRNA-Leu. The overall base composition of the mitogenome of A. audax was dominated by higher AT (54.3%) than GC (45.7%) content. The complete mitogenome sequence determined in this study would be useful to track the deeper evolutionary history and the conservation of A. audax.

History

Publication Date

2019-01-01

Journal

Mitochondrial DNA Part B: Resources

Volume

4

Issue

1

Pagination

3p. (p. 434-436)

Publisher

Taylor & Francis Open

ISSN

2380-2359

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