Background Mitochondrial genomic (mitogenomic) reorganizations are rarely found in
closely-related animals, yet drastic reorganizations have been found in the Ranoides frogs …

Background Although mitochondrial (mt) gene order is highly conserved among vertebrates,
widespread gene rearrangements occur in anurans, especially in neobatrachians. Protein …

Background Rearrangement is an important topic in the research of amphibian
mitochondrial genomes (" mitogenomes" hereafter), whose causes and mechanisms remain …

In Malagasy frogs of the family Mantellidae, the genus Mantella is known to possess highly
reorganized mitochondrial (mt) genomes with the following characteristics: 1) some …

Various types of gene rearrangements have been discovered in the mitogenoes of the frog
family Ranidae. In this study, we determined the complete mitogenome sequence of three …

Genus Babina is a member of Ranidae, a large family of frogs, currently comprising 10
species. Three of them are listed as endangered species. To identify mitochondrial (mt) …

Background Understanding the causes underlying heterogeneity of molecular evolutionary
rates among lineages is a long-standing and central question in evolutionary biology …

Background Complete mitochondrial (mt) genomes have been used extensively to test
hypotheses about microevolution and to study population structure, phylogeography, and …

Determining the root of the anuran Tree of Life is still a contentious and open question in
frog systematics. Two genera with disjunct distributions have been traditionally considered …

Neobatrachia is a phylogenetically-nested anuran group and contains approximately 85% of
amphibian species. It is difficult to analyze the neobatrachian mitochondrial (mt) genome …