TY - JOUR
T1 - Comparative mitogenomic analyses of Amazona parrots and Psittaciformes
AU - Lima, Nicholas Costa Barroso
AU - Soares, André Elias Rodrigues
AU - Almeida, Luiz Gonzaga de Paula
AU - da Costa, Igor Rodrigues
AU - Sato, Fernanda Midori
AU - Schneider, Patricia
AU - Aleixo, Alexandre
AU - Schneider, Maria Paula
AU - Santos, Fabrício R.
AU - Mello, Claudio V.
AU - Miyaki, Cristina
AU - Vasconcelos, Ana Tereza R.
AU - Prosdocimi, Francisco
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was sponsored by Brazilian funding agencies CNPq (SISBIOAVES project), FAPESPA, FAPE-MIG, FAPESP (Biota 2013/50297-0), and FAPERJ (E-26/202.810/2015), as well as by NSF (DOB 1343578) and NASA. We gratefully acknowledge all authors from the A. aestiva genome paper, Drs. Morgan Wirthlin, Rafael Lucas Muniz Guedes, Nathalia P. Cavaleiro, Guilherme Loss de Morais, Anderson V. Chaves, Marcus de Melo Teixeira, Michael C. Schatz, Maria Sueli Felipe, and especially Erich Jarvis and Jason Howard from Duke University. Also, we would like to thank biologist Paulo Augusto Ribeiro Machado for providing access to the A. aestiva specimen (FVVF132) and Anderson Vieira Chaves for critically reading the manuscript.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, Sociedade Brasileira de Genética.
PY - 2018/7/1
Y1 - 2018/7/1
N2 - Amazon parrots are long-lived birds with highly developed cognitive skills, including vocal learning. Several parrot mitogenomes have been sequenced, but important aspects of their organization and evolution are not fully understood or have limited experimental support. The main aim of the present study was to describe the mitogenome of the blue-fronted Amazon, Amazona aestiva, and compare it to other mitogenomes from the genus Amazona and the order Psittaciformes. We observed that mitogenomes are highly conserved among Amazon parrots, and a detailed analysis of their duplicated control regions revealed conserved blocks. Population level analyses indicated that the specimen analyzed here seems to be close to A. aestiva individuals from Bahia state. Evolutionary relationships of 41 Psittaciformes species and three outgroups were inferred by BEAST. All relationships were retrieved with high support.
AB - Amazon parrots are long-lived birds with highly developed cognitive skills, including vocal learning. Several parrot mitogenomes have been sequenced, but important aspects of their organization and evolution are not fully understood or have limited experimental support. The main aim of the present study was to describe the mitogenome of the blue-fronted Amazon, Amazona aestiva, and compare it to other mitogenomes from the genus Amazona and the order Psittaciformes. We observed that mitogenomes are highly conserved among Amazon parrots, and a detailed analysis of their duplicated control regions revealed conserved blocks. Population level analyses indicated that the specimen analyzed here seems to be close to A. aestiva individuals from Bahia state. Evolutionary relationships of 41 Psittaciformes species and three outgroups were inferred by BEAST. All relationships were retrieved with high support.
KW - Control region
KW - Mitogenomics
KW - Next-generation-sequencing
KW - Psittacidae
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U2 - 10.1590/1678-4685-gmb-2017-0023
DO - 10.1590/1678-4685-gmb-2017-0023
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85053283643
SN - 1415-4757
VL - 41
SP - 593
EP - 604
JO - Genetics and Molecular Biology
JF - Genetics and Molecular Biology
IS - 3
ER -