The complete mitogenome of Gracilaria chouae and its phylogenetic analysis

Xianming Tang; Xuli Jia; Jing Zhang; Tao Liu

doi:10.1080/23802359.2019.1659113

The complete mitogenome of Gracilaria chouae and its phylogenetic analysis

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2019 Aug 29;4(2):2786-2787. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2019.1659113.

Authors

Xianming Tang^{1

2}, Xuli Jia³, Jing Zhang⁴, Tao Liu^{1

2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Hainan Academy of Ocean and Fisheries Sciences, Haikou, People's Republic of China.
² Hainan Provincial Key Laboratory of Technology for Tropical Seawater Aquaculture, Haikou, People's Republic of China.
³ Laboratory of Genetics and Breeding of Marine Organism, College of Marine Life Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, People's Republic of China.
⁴ Qi Lu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences), Jinan, People's Republic of China.

Abstract

Gracilaria chouae, a marine red macroalgae, is a rich source of active substances and is listed as biological and health food material with high economic value. The mitogenome sequence of G. chouae is 25,829 bp. A total of 50 genes were determined, including 24 protein-encoding genes, two rRNA genes, 23 tRNA genes, and one unidentified open reading frame (ORF). Phylogenetic analysis showed that G. chouae clustered together with Gracilariopsis chorda, Gracilariopsis lemanaeformis, Gracilariopsis andersonii, Gracilariophila oryzoides, and Gracilariopsis heteroclada. The mitogenome analysis will help the understanding of Gracilaria evolution.

Keywords: Gracilaria chouae; Gracilariaceae; mitogenome; phylogenetic analysis.