Complete mitochondrial genome of the jellyfish, Nemopilema nomurai (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa) and the phylogenetic relationship in the related species

Yantao Wang; Song Sun

doi:10.1080/23802359.2017.1298417

Complete mitochondrial genome of the jellyfish, Nemopilema nomurai (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa) and the phylogenetic relationship in the related species

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2017 Mar 23;2(1):165-166. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2017.1298417.

Authors

Yantao Wang^{1

2}, Song Sun^{1

2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory of Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China.
² Laboratory for Marine Ecology and Environmental Science, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China.
³ Jiaozhou Bay Marine Ecosystem Research Station, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China.

Abstract

The complete mitochondrial genome of giant jellyfish Nemopilema nomurai collected from East China Sea was determined by next-generation sequencing. The mitogenome is a circular molecule 17,024 bp in length, including 13 protein-coding genes (including Cox 1, Cox2, Atp 8, Atp 6, ND5, ND 6, ND3, ND41, ND1,ND4, Cytb), 6 tRNAs (tRNA-Trp, tRNA-Met, tRNA-Val, tRNA-Arg, tRNA-Glu, tRNA-Asn), 2 rRNA genes (small subunit RNA and large subunit RNA), and 1 putative control region. The phylogenetic tree in the related species showed that giant jellyfish is close to Hydraoligaclis.

Keywords: Nemopilema nomurai; mitochondrial genome; next generation sequencing; phylogenetic relationship.