The complete mitochondrial genome of a gray reef shark, Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos (Carcharhiniformes: Carcharhinidae), from the Western Indian Ocean

Ela Patel; Andrea M Bernard; Marissa Mehlrose; Sydney Harned; Kimberly A Finnegan; Cristín K Fitzpatrick; James S Lea; Mahmood S Shivji

doi:10.1080/23802359.2020.1827064

The complete mitochondrial genome of a gray reef shark, Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos (Carcharhiniformes: Carcharhinidae), from the Western Indian Ocean

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2020 Oct 7;5(3):3498-3499. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2020.1827064.

Authors

Ela Patel^{1

2}, Andrea M Bernard¹, Marissa Mehlrose¹, Sydney Harned¹, Kimberly A Finnegan¹, Cristín K Fitzpatrick³, James S Lea^{4

5}, Mahmood S Shivji¹

Affiliations

¹ Save Our Seas Foundation Shark Research Center, Nova Southeastern University, Florida, USA.
² Trinity Preparatory School, Florida, USA.
³ State Fisheries Genomics Lab, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Oregon State University, Oregon, USA.
⁴ Save Our Seas Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland.
⁵ Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

Abstract

We present the mitochondrial genome sequence of a gray reef shark, Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos (Bleeker 1856), a coral reef associated species. This is the first mitogenome for this species from the western Indian Ocean. The mitogenome is 16,705 bp in length, has 13 protein-coding genes, 22 tRNA genes, 2 rRNA genes and a non-coding control region, and demonstrates a gene arrangement congruent with other shark and most vertebrate species. This mitogenome provides a genomic resource for assisting with population, evolutionary and conservation studies for the gray reef shark, which is increasingly under threat from fisheries.

Keywords: Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos; Gray reef shark; mitogenome.

Grants and funding

We thank the Save Our Seas Foundation [Grant 157] for support.