Complete mitochondrial genome of the Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella)

Rebecca Nagel; Jaume Forcada; Joseph I Hoffman

doi:10.1080/23802359.2019.1662751

Complete mitochondrial genome of the Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2019 Sep 6;4(2):2936-2937. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2019.1662751.

Authors

Rebecca Nagel¹, Jaume Forcada², Joseph I Hoffman^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Animal Behaviour, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany.
² British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK.

Abstract

The Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella) is an abundant Antarctic otariid. Here, we present the complete mitochondrial DNA sequence of this species, which includes 13 protein-coding genes, 22 transfer RNA genes, 2 ribosomal RNA genes, and the control region for a total length of 16,156 bp. A phylogenetic analysis including all 25 publically available pinniped mitogenomes nested the Antarctic fur seal within the Otariid clade, which was clearly resolved from the Phocidae and Odobenidae.

Keywords: Antarctic fur seal; Arctocephalus; Otariidae; Pinnipedia; mitogenome.