The first complete mitochondrial genome data of the Afghan pika Ochotona rufescens (Lagomorpha, Ochotonidae), near the type locality

Genomic DNA was extracted following the modified phenol-chloroform extraction protocol (Roycroft et al. 2021; 2022). double-indexed and double-stranded library preparation; mitogenome enrichment with myBaits Custom 20-40K (Daicel Arbour Biosciences, USA); sequencing: Illumina NextSeq 550 platform; mitogenome assembled de novo in NOVOPlasty v.4.3.1 and annotated in MITOS2 web server.

The circular mitogenome map was drawn using OGDRAW. Phylogenetic relationship was inferred using IQ-TREE.The mitogenome The mitogenome data are available in the GenBank under the accession number ON859136 (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/ON859136) & ON859137 (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/ON859137). Raw sequence data are available in Sequence Read Archive [BioProject: PRJNA1020817, BioSample: SAMN37529232 (individual FMNH102840) SAMN37529233 (individual FMNH102841); doi: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/biosample/37529232; ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/biosample/37529233.]