The complete mitogenome of sea hares, Dolabella auricularia (Mollusca: Aplysiidae)

Geng-Ming Lin; Peng Xiang; Gilbert Audira; Chung-Der Hsiao

doi:10.1080/23802359.2017.1365656

The complete mitogenome of sea hares, Dolabella auricularia (Mollusca: Aplysiidae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2017 Aug 17;2(2):554-555. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2017.1365656.

Authors

Geng-Ming Lin¹, Peng Xiang¹, Gilbert Audira², Chung-Der Hsiao^{2

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Affiliations

¹ Laboratory of Marine Biology and Ecology, Third Institute of Oceanography, SOA, Xiamen, China.
² Department of Bioscience Technology, Chung Yuan Christian University, Chung-Li, Taiwan.
³ Center for Biomedical Technology, Chung Yuan Christian University, Chung-Li, Taiwan.
⁴ Center for Nanotechnology, Chung Yuan Christian University, Chung-Li, Taiwan.

Abstract

In this study, the complete mitogenome sequence of sea hares, Dolabella auricularia (Mollusca: Aplysiidae), has been decoded for the first time by low coverage whole genome sequencing method. The overall base composition of D. auricularia mitogenome is 31.5% for A, 14.0% for C, 16.4% for G, and 38.0% for T, and has low GC content of 30.5%. The assembled mitogenome, consisting of 14,598 bp, has unique 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs), 22 transfer RNAs, and two ribosomal RNAs genes. The D. auricularia has the common mitogenome gene organization and feature of Aplysiidae. The complete mitogenome of D. auricularia provides essential and important DNA molecular data for further phylogenetic and evolutionary analysis for Aplysiidae.

Keywords: Dolabella auricularia; Sea hares; mitogenome; next generation sequencing.