The complete mitochondrial genome of marine gastropod Melo melo (neogastropoda: volutoidea)

Shengping Zhong; Guoqiang Huang; Yonghong Liu; Lianghua Huang

doi:10.1080/23802359.2019.1693293

The complete mitochondrial genome of marine gastropod Melo melo (neogastropoda: volutoidea)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2019 Nov 20;4(2):4161-4162. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2019.1693293.

Authors

Shengping Zhong^{1

2}, Guoqiang Huang¹, Yonghong Liu¹, Lianghua Huang¹

Affiliations

¹ Institute of marine drugs, Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine, Nanning, China.
² Key Laboratory of Marine Biotechnology, Guangxi Institute of Oceanology, Beihai, China.

Abstract

Melo melo is an ecologically and economically important species of Neogastropoda, which is an ecologically diverse group of carnivorous marine gastropods. However, the taxonomic classification and phylogenetic studies have so far been limited. In this study, we report the second complete mitochondrial genome of Volutidae from M. melo. The mitogenome has 15,721 base pairs (68.3% A + T content) and made up of total of 37 genes (13 protein-coding, 22 transfer RNAs and 2 ribosomal RNAs), and a control region. This study was the second available complete mitogenomes of Volutidae and will provide useful genetic information for future phylogenetic and taxonomic classification of Neogastropoda.

Keywords: Melo melo; Mitochondrial genome; Nneogastropoda.