The first complete mitochondrial genome sequence of the leucosiid crab Pyrhila pisum (Arthropoda, Decapoda, Leucosiidae)

Yeong-Jun Park; Chang Eon Park; Byung Kwon Jung; Jerald Conrad Ibal; YeonGyun Jung; Sung-Jun Hong; Gun-Seok Park; Seok Hyun Lee; Hyun Sook Ko; Jae-Ho Shin

doi:10.1080/23802359.2017.1407717

The first complete mitochondrial genome sequence of the leucosiid crab Pyrhila pisum (Arthropoda, Decapoda, Leucosiidae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2017 Nov 27;2(2):885-886. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2017.1407717.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ School of Applied Biosciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea.
² Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.
³ Department of Life Science, Silla University, Busan, Republic of Korea.
⁴ Institute of Agricultural Science & Technology, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea.

Abstract

Pyrhila pisum is known as leucosiid crab. So far, there is no study about whole mitochondrial genome in Leucosiidae family. Here, we report first the complete sequence of the mitochondrial genome from P. pisum, which is composed of 15,516 base pair encoding 13 protein-coding genes, 22 transfer RNAs, two ribosomal RNAs, and A + T-rich region. The nucleotide composition of P. pisum was G + C: 25.5%, A + T: 74.5%, with a strong AT bias. In phylogenetic analysis using whole mitogenome, it was figured out that P. pisum was closely related to Sesarma neglectum but their family is different.

Keywords: Leucosiidae; Pyrhila pisum; leucosiid crab.