Complete mitochondrial genome of the Turbinaria bifrons (Scleractinia, Dendrophylliidae)

Peng Tian; Jiaguang Xiao; Zhiyu Jia; Xiaolei Wang; Wei Wang; Dingyong Huang; Jianjia Wang; Wentao Niu

doi:10.1080/23802359.2021.1948368

Complete mitochondrial genome of the Turbinaria bifrons (Scleractinia, Dendrophylliidae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2021 Jul 6;6(8):2237-2239. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2021.1948368. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Peng Tian¹, Jiaguang Xiao¹, Zhiyu Jia¹, Xiaolei Wang¹, Wei Wang¹, Dingyong Huang¹, Jianjia Wang¹, Wentao Niu¹

Affiliation

¹ Laboratory of Marine Biology and Ecology, Third Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Xiamen, PR China.

Abstract

In this study, the complete mitogenome sequence of the stony coral, Turbinaria bifrons Brüggemann, 1877, has been decoded for the first time by next-generation sequencing (NGS) and genome assembly. The assembled mitogenome was 18,880 bp in length, contained 13 protein coding genes, 2 transfer RNAs, and 2 ribosomal RNAs. The complete mitogenome of T. bifrons showing 97.09% identities to Tubastraea tagusensis. The complete mitogenome provides essential and important DNA molecular data for further phylogenetic and evolutionary analysis for coral phylogeny.

Keywords: Mitogenome; Scleractinia; next-generation sequence; phylogeny.

Grants and funding

This study was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under grant [number 42006128; 42006085; 42006098] and the Scientific Research Foundation of Third Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources under grant [number 2020006; 2020005].