Complete mitochondrial genome of the stone char Salvelinus kuznetzovi (Salmoniformes, Salmonidae)

Evgeniy S Balakirev; V A Parensky; M Yu Kovalev; Francisco J Ayala

doi:10.1080/23802359.2016.1166080

Complete mitochondrial genome of the stone char Salvelinus kuznetzovi (Salmoniformes, Salmonidae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2016 Apr 12;1(1):287-288. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2016.1166080.

Authors

Evgeniy S Balakirev^{1

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3}, V A Parensky², M Yu Kovalev², Francisco J Ayala¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA.
² A.V. Zhirmunsky Institute of Marine Biology, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Science, Vladivostok, Russia.
³ Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, Russia.

Abstract

The complete mitochondrial genome was sequenced in two individuals of stone char Salvelinus kuznetzovi. The genome sequences are 16,654 bp in size, and the gene arrangement, composition and size are very similar to the salmonid fish genomes published previously. The low level of sequence divergence detected between the genome of S. kuznetzovi and the GenBank complete mitochondrial genomes of the white char S. albus (KT266870 and KT266871), the Northern Dolly Varden char S. malma (KJ746618) and the Arctic char S. alpinus (AF154851) may likely be due to recent divergence and/or historical hybridization and interspecific replacement of mtDNA.

Keywords: Arctic char S. alpinus; Northern Dolly Varden char S. malma; salmonids; stone char Salvelinus kuznetzovi; white char S. albus.