The complete mitochondrion genome of the Hoge's Side-necked turtle Ranacephala hogei (Chelidae), a critically endangered species from South America.

ABSTRACT: The Hogei's side-necked turtle, Ranacephala hogei, an endemic species of the Southern Paraíba basin, is the most endangered species of chelonians in Brazil. Here, we sequenced, assembled and described the complete mitogenome for R. hogei. The circularized mitogenome of R. hogei was 16,513 bp in length, containing all the typical 13 protein-coding genes, 2 rRNAs, 22 tRNAs and the D-loop region, as expected for animal mitogenomes. The gene arrangement also met the expectation for vertebrates, though R. hogei NAD6 gene was shorter than observed in other closely related species. Additionally, we provided an assembly of the Podocnemis expansa mitochondrial genome based on public data in SRA database. Maximum likelihood and Bayesian phylogenomic trees were constructed using the concatenation of

SUBMITTER: Dumans AT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12359128 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature