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Tissue Collection of Bats for -Omics Analyses and Primary Cell Culture
Published on: October 23, 2019
The first mitochondrial genome data of an old world fruit bat, Cynopterus sphinx from Malaysia
Puteri Nur Syahzanani Jahari1, Shahfiz Mohd Azman2, Kaviarasu Munian2
1Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Science, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor, Malaysia.
Abstract:
We assembled the complete mitogenome of Cynopterus sphinx (Vahl, 1797) of the family Pteropodidae originating from Malaysia. The total mitogenome size was 16,710bp which consists of 37 genes (13 protein-coding genes, 22 transfer RNA genes, two ribosomal RNA genes and one control region). A phylogenetic and BLASTn result showed the mitogenome sequence in this study varies by nearly 7% (93.48% similarity) from the same species in Cambodia. The next closest match of BLASTn was at 92% similarity to the C. brachyotis. This suggests the species-complex in Cynopterus sp. has given rise to the genetic variability.
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