Complete sequence of mitochondrial DNA of Gloiopeltis furcata (Postels and Ruprecht) J. Agardh

Kei Watanabe; Takahiro Kishimoto; Yuya Kumagai; Takeshi Shimizu; Toshiki Uji; Hajime Yasui; Hideki Kishimura

doi:10.1080/23802359.2019.1639558

Complete sequence of mitochondrial DNA of Gloiopeltis furcata (Postels and Ruprecht) J. Agardh

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2019 Jul 18;4(2):2543-2544. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2019.1639558.

Authors

Kei Watanabe¹, Takahiro Kishimoto¹, Yuya Kumagai², Takeshi Shimizu³, Toshiki Uji⁴, Hajime Yasui⁵, Hideki Kishimura²

Affiliations

¹ Chair of Marine Chemical Resource Development, Graduate School of Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido University, Hakodate, Japan.
² Laboratory of Marine Chemical Resource, Graduate School of Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido University, Hakodate, Japan.
³ Department of Research and Development, Hokkaido Industrial Technology Center, Hakodate, Japan.
⁴ Laboratory of Aquaculture Genetics and Genomics, Faculty of Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido University, Hakodate, Japan.
⁵ Laboratory of Humans and the Ocean, Faculty of Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido University, Hakodate, Japan.

Abstract

Although most red algae produce agar and carrageenan, Gloiopeltis furcata produces funoran as polysaccharide component. In this study, the complete G. furcata mitochondrial genome was determined. It had a circular mapping molecular with the length of 25,636 bp and contained 49 genes including 24 protein-coding, two rRNA, and 23 tRNA. Phylogenetic analysis showed that G. furcata was separated with the other polysaccharide-producing red algae. This is the first report of complete mitochondrial genome from funoran producing red algae.

Keywords: Gigartinales; Mitochondrial genome; macroalgae; red alga.