The complete mitochondrial genome of a Green macroalgae species: Ulva meridionalis (Ulvales: Ulvaceae)

Xinyu Kang; Jinlin Liu; Xiaoqian Yang; Jianjun Cui; Lijuan Zhao; Qinlin Wen; Meilin Fu; Jianheng Zhang; Peimin He

doi:10.1080/23802359.2020.1715856

The complete mitochondrial genome of a Green macroalgae species: Ulva meridionalis (Ulvales: Ulvaceae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2020 Jan 21;5(1):760-761. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2020.1715856.

Authors

Xinyu Kang¹, Jinlin Liu^{1

2}, Xiaoqian Yang¹, Jianjun Cui³, Lijuan Zhao¹, Qinlin Wen¹, Meilin Fu¹, Jianheng Zhang^{1

4}, Peimin He^{1

4}

Affiliations

¹ College of Marine Ecology and Environment, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China.
² North China Sea Environmental Monitoring Center, State Oceanic Administration, Qingdao, China.
³ College of Fisheries, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang, China.
⁴ Department of Marine Sciences, Co-Innovation Center of Jiangsu Marine Bio-industry Technology, Lianyungang, China.

Abstract

Ulva meridionalis, a green macroalgae, is one of the causal species for green tides in Japan and spread into the coast of China. During this research, we sequenced the complete mitochondrial genome of U. meridionalis. The mitogenome is 62,887 bp in length, including 28 encoding genes and 29 tRNA genes. Compared with the Ulva species from mitogenome, the gene order and organization of this mitogenome are similar to most of other determined Ulva mitogenomes, with the nucleotide base composition of A 33.6%, T 32.2%, C 16.2%, and G 18.0%. Phylogenetic analysis shows U. meridionalis is closely related to Ulva flexuosa.

Keywords: Green algae; Ulva meridionalis; mitochondrial genome; phylogenetic analysis.

Grants and funding

This study was financially supported by National Key R&D Program of China [2018YFD0901500], National Natural Science Foundation of China [41576163], Shanghai Sailing Program [17YF1407900], Luo Zhaorao Science and Innovation Fund [A1200400201307, A1200400201328].