The first mitochondrial genome of Codonobdella sp. (Hirudinea, piscicolidae), an endemic leech species from Lake Baikal, Russia and reassembly of the Piscicola geometra data from SRA

Alexander Bolbat; Ekaterina Matveenko; Elena Dzyuba; Irina Kaygorodova

doi:10.1080/23802359.2021.1967807

The first mitochondrial genome of Codonobdella sp. (Hirudinea, piscicolidae), an endemic leech species from Lake Baikal, Russia and reassembly of the Piscicola geometra data from SRA

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2021 Oct 5;6(11):3112-3113. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2021.1967807. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Alexander Bolbat¹, Ekaterina Matveenko¹, Elena Dzyuba¹, Irina Kaygorodova¹

Affiliation

¹ Limnological Institute of Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Irkutsk, Russia.

Abstract

In this study, we assembled a complete mitochondrial genome of Codonobdella sp. sample from Lake Baikal, Russia and reassembled third party raw data of Piscicola geometra. Mitogenomes of both freshwater piscine leeches consist of 37 genes, including 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs), two ribosomal genes (12S and 16S), 22 transport RNA genes, and one control region. The complete mitogenome of Codonobdella sp. is 14,486 bp long and A + T biased (75.51%). The complete mitogenome of Piscicola geometra is 14,788 bp long and A + T biased (78.27%).

Keywords: Codonobdella sp.; Complete mitochondrial genome; Hirudinea; Piscicola geometra; Piscicolidae.

Grants and funding

This research was carried out within the framework of the State Task [no. 121032300198-2]; and financially supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) under grants nos. 19-34-90011 and 20-34-90043.