Complete mitochondrial genome of Black Drongo Dicrurus macrocercus (Passeriformes: Dicruridae) and phylogenetic analyses

Haibo Zhang; Xue Gou; Shize Li; Cheng Wang; Caichun Peng; Canshi Hu; Mingming Zhang; Lifei Yu; Haijun Su

doi:10.1080/23802359.2021.1920490

Complete mitochondrial genome of Black Drongo Dicrurus macrocercus (Passeriformes: Dicruridae) and phylogenetic analyses

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2021 Jul 22;6(8):2442-2444. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2021.1920490. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Haibo Zhang^{1

2}, Xue Gou^{3

4}, Shize Li^{1

5}, Cheng Wang^{3

4}, Caichun Peng^{3

4}, Canshi Hu^{1

4}, Mingming Zhang^{3

4}, Lifei Yu¹, Haijun Su^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ College of Life Sciences, Guizhou University, Guiyang, China.
² Aha Lake National Wetland Park, Guiyang, China.
³ Forestry College, Guizhou University, Guiyang, China.
⁴ Research Center for Biodiversity and Natural Conservation, Guizhou University, Guiyang, China.
⁵ Department of Food Science and Engineering, Moutai Institute, Renhuai, China.

Abstract

The Black Drongo Dicrurus macrocercus is a bird belonging to the group Passeriformes, distributed almost all over the country in China. The conservation status of this species is Least Concern (LC) in IUCN. In this study, the complete mitogenome of D. macrocercus was determined. The mitochondrial DNA is packaged in a compact 17,056 based pair (bp) circular molecule with A + T content of 57.04%. It contains 37 typical mitochondrial genes, including 13 protein-coding genes, 2 rRNAs and 22 tRNAs, and 1 non-coding regions. We reconstructed a phylogenetic tree based on mitogenome sequences of 15 Dicruridae species and one outgroup. In trees, D. macrocercus was clustered as an independent clade with high support value (100). The new mitogenome data would provide useful information for application in conservation genetics and further clarify the phylogenetic evolution of this species.

Keywords: Black Drongo; Complete genome; Dicrurus macrocercus; gene arrangement; mitochondrial DNA.

Associated data

figshare/10.6084/m9.figshare.13377656

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [31860610 and 31400353]; Provincial Key Science and Technology Project of Guizhou ([2016]3022-1); Provincial Science and Technology Plan of Guizhou ([2014]7682; [2019]2842; [2019]1068); Technology Plan of Education Administration of Guizhou Province [2018]102. Special fund project for training outstanding young talents in forestry of Guizhou Province.