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The complete mitochondrial genome of Talpa aquitania (Talpidae; Insectivora), a mole species endemic to northern Spain and southern France

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The complete mitogenome sequence of Talpa aquitania, a recently described Talpa species, was assembled using whole-genome sequencing data. It varies in length from 16,776 to 16,846 bp, contains 13 protein-coding genes, two ribosomal RNA genes, 22 transfer RNA genes, one origin of L-strand replication, and a control region. In the control region, which varied from 1320 to 1390 bp, we identified the extended termination-associated sequence (ETAS-1 and ETAS-2) and the conserved sequence blocks (CSB-1, 2, 3, B, C, D, E, F). In addition, this region includes a 10 bp tandem repeat DNA sequence, with a variable number of repeats that suggest the existence of heteroplasmy. Phylogeny reconstructions based on Maximum Likelihood, Neighbor-joining and Bayesian inference analyses yielded phylogenies with similar topologies demonstrating that T. aquitania and T. occidentalis are sister species.

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This work was funded by the Consejería de Innovación, Ciencia y Empresa de la Junta de Andalucía (research group RNM-924), and by Universidad de Jaén (via the program Plan de Apoyo a la Investigación 2017–2019, Acción 1). FJ Ruiz-Ruano was funded by a Lawski scholarship (Sweden) and G. Aleix-Mata by Fédération Nationale des Chasseurs, Fédération Départementales des Chasseurs de l’Ariège and Hautes Pyrénées (France) (project FNC-PSN-PR16-2014). The authors would like to express their gratitude to the Servicio Territorial de Medio Ambiente de Burgos (Junta de Castilla y León) for permission to capture T. aquitania.

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  1. Departamento de Biología Experimental, Área de Genética, Universidad de Jaén, Campus Las Lagunillas s/n., 23071, Jaén, Spain

    Gaël Aleix-Mata, Juana Gutiérrez, Pedro Lorite, Juan A. Marchal & Antonio Sánchez

  2. Departamento de Biología Animal, Biología Vegetal y Ecología, Universidad de Jaén, Campus Las Lagunillas, s/n., 23071, Jaén, Spain

    Gaël Aleix-Mata

  3. Department of Ecology and Genetics, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, 752 36, Uppsala, Sweden

    Francisco J. Ruiz-Ruano

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Aleix-Mata, G., Gutiérrez, J., Ruiz-Ruano, F.J. et al. The complete mitochondrial genome of Talpa aquitania (Talpidae; Insectivora), a mole species endemic to northern Spain and southern France. Mol Biol Rep 47, 2397–2403 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11033-020-05296-8

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