The complete mitogenome of 'Pingbancai', an important economic Saccharina cultivation variety

Jing Zhang; Benjie Gao; Tao Liu; Lei Zhang; Na Liu

doi:10.1080/23802359.2016.1186517

The complete mitogenome of 'Pingbancai', an important economic Saccharina cultivation variety

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2016 Jul 10;1(1):470-471. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2016.1186517.

Authors

Jing Zhang¹, Benjie Gao¹, Tao Liu², Lei Zhang², Na Liu²

Affiliations

¹ College of Biology Engineering, Qilu University of Technology, Jinan, Shandong, China.
² College of Marine Life Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, Shandong, China.

Abstract

Saccharina is one of the most important economic seaweed. We presented the complete mitogenome of Saccharina variety 'Pingbancai' (Saccharina japonica × latissima) in this work. Circular-mapping mitogenome was 37,658 bp in length with overall A + T content of 64.70%, encoding 3 rRNAs (23S, 16S and 5S), 25 tRNAs, 38 genes (including 3 open reading frames, ORFs). Gene arrangement and component of 'Pingbancai' mitogenome were identical to those Saccharina species and cultivation varieties, which show highly conservative evolution in mitochondrial genomes within Saccharina. The phylogenetic analysis based on mitogenomes showed that 'Pingbancai' had a closer evolutionary relationship with Saccharina japonica than Saccharina latissima and the supported mitogenome was maternally inherited.

Keywords: Conservative evolution; Pingbancai; mitogenome; phylogenetic relationship.