Complete mitochondrial genome sequences of the northern spotted owl (Strix occidentalis caurina) and the barred owl (Strix varia; Aves: Strigiformes: Strigidae) confirm the presence of a duplicated control region

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1 Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America
2 Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America
3 Department of Ornithology & Mammalogy, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, United States of America
4 Center for Comparative Genomics, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, United States of America
5 Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, San Francisco, California, United States of America
6 UMR 7205 Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité, CNRS, MNHN, UPMC, EPHE, Sorbonne Universités, Département Systématique et Evolution, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France
DOI
10.7287/peerj.preprints.3120v1
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Accepted
Subject Areas
Genetics, Genomics, Molecular Biology, Zoology
Keywords
mitochondrial genome, bird, northern spotted owl, barred owl, mtGenome, mtDNA, control region
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© 2017 Hanna et al.
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Hanna ZR, Henderson JB, Sellas AB, Fuchs J, Bowie RCK, Dumbacher JP. 2017. Complete mitochondrial genome sequences of the northern spotted owl (Strix occidentalis caurina) and the barred owl (Strix varia; Aves: Strigiformes: Strigidae) confirm the presence of a duplicated control region. PeerJ Preprints 5:e3120v1

Abstract

We report here the successful assembly of the complete mitochondrial genomes of the northern spotted owl (Strix occidentalis caurina) and the barred owl (S. varia). We utilized sequence data from two sequencing methodologies, Illumina paired-end sequence data with insert lengths ranging from approximately 250 nucleotides (nt) to 9,600 nt and read lengths from 100-375 nt and Sanger sequences. We employed multiple assemblers and alignment methods to generate the final assemblies. The circular genomes of S. o. caurina and S. varia are comprised of 19,948 nt and 18,975 nt, respectively. Both code for two rRNAs, twenty-two tRNAs, and thirteen polypeptides. They both have duplicated control region sequences with complex repeat structures. These are the first complete mitochondrial genome sequences of owls (Aves: Strigiformes) possessing duplicated control regions. We searched the nuclear genome of S. o. caurina for copies of mitochondrial genes and found at least nine separate stretches of nuclear copies of gene sequences originating in the mitochondrial genome (Numts).

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DOI: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.3120v1/supp-1