The mitochondrial genome and phylogenetic position of a marine snail Nerita (Heminerita) japonica (Gastropoda: Neritimorpha: Neritidae)

Hiroaki Fukumori; Hajime Itoh; Nobuyoshi Nakajima; Yasunori Kano

doi:10.1080/23802359.2020.1829136

The mitochondrial genome and phylogenetic position of a marine snail Nerita (Heminerita) japonica (Gastropoda: Neritimorpha: Neritidae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2020 Oct 21;5(3):3597-3599. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2020.1829136.

Authors

Hiroaki Fukumori^{1

2}, Hajime Itoh³, Nobuyoshi Nakajima³, Yasunori Kano²

Affiliations

¹ Sesoko Station, Tropical Biosphere Research Center, University of the Ryukyus, Motobu, Japan.
² Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan.
³ National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan.

Abstract

The mitochondrial genome of the neritid snail Nerita (Heminerita) japonica (Mollusca: Neritimorpha) from Kumamoto, Japan was determined by whole-genome sequencing. This mitogenome is comprised of 13 protein-coding genes, 2 ribosomal RNA (12S and 16S) genes, and 22 transfer RNA genes, with the same gene order as in the other species of the family Neritidae. A likelihood-based phylogenetic reconstruction recovered the subgenus Heminerita (including N. japonica as its type and N. yoldii from China) as monophyletic and sister to a clade with four species of the subgenera Nerita and Theliostyla.

Keywords: Mollusca; Neritinae; Neritoidea; next-generation sequencing; phylogenetic tree.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI [grant numbers 15K20922 and 18J01965] and Project for Environmental Genomics Studies by NIES.