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. 2019 Sep 23;4(2):3165-3166.
doi: 10.1080/23802359.2019.1667904.

Characterization of the complete mitochondrial genome of the Pamir yak (Bos grunniens)

Xian Guo  1 , Xiaoyun Wu  1 , Min Chu  1 , Pengjia Bao  1 , Lin Xiong  1 , Chunnian Liang  1 , Xuezhi Ding  1 , Jie Pei  1 , Ping Yan  1
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Characterization of the complete mitochondrial genome of the Pamir yak (Bos grunniens)

Xian Guo et al. Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. .

Abstract

Pamir yak (Bos grunniens) is a yak breed from Pamir Plateau with strong adaptation to the high-elevation, cold and anoxic environments. Its complete mitochondrial genome was determined to be 16,323 bp long with a moderately asymmetric nucleotide composition, and harbors the typical set of 37 mitochondrial genes and the noncoding control region. The PCGs start with the typical ATA or ATG codons, and end with TAA, TAG or the incomplete termination codon T. Phylogenetic analysis suggests that Pamir yak is most closely related to six other yak breeds (i.e. Datong, Pali, polled, Qilian, Seron and Sunan yaks).

Keywords: phylogeny; Illumina sequencing; iterative mapping; mitogenome; yak.

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Phylogenetic relationships of 11 yak breeds based on the neighbor-joining (NJ) analysis of the concatenated sequences of 13 mitochondrial protein-coding genes (alignment size: 10,370 bp). The support values next to the nodes are based on 1000 bootstrap replicates. Two Bison species were included as outgroup taxa.
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