2014/02/26 by Mengyao Liu, Chunlan Kang, Chaochao Yan +5 · 1 citation
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Identification and Quantification in Food #Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies #Genetic diversity and population structure #Biology #Phylogenetic tree #Mitochondrial DNA #Tandem repeat #Hippopotamus #Evolutionary biology #Stork #Genome #Genetics #Zoology #Gene #Ecology
paper · doi:10.3109/19401736.2014.883616
openalex publication_date 2014/02/26 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
The Black Stork, Ciconia nigra belongs to family Ciconiidae, which is evaluated as Least Concern by IUCN. In this study, the complete mitochondrial genome of C. nigra was first sequenced and characterized, which was 17,795 bp in length. The mt-genome has tandem repeats of 80 bp and 78 bp repeat units, and AAACAAC and AAACAAACAAC tandem repeats in D-loop region. It is notable that a single extra base "C" at position 174 was inserted in gene ND3. Bayesian inference, maximum likelihood methods were used to construct phylogenetic trees based on 12 heavy-strand protein-coding genes. Phylogenetic analyses showed that Ardeidae diverged earlier than Ciconiidae, Cathartida and Threskiornithidae, and Ciconiidae had closest relationship to Cathartida. C. nigra diverged first among three Ciconia birds.