Complete mitochondrial genome of the three Colombian Caribbean loggerhead sea turtles, using next-generation sequencing

Javier Hernández-Fernández; David Arley Delgado Cano

doi:10.1080/23802359.2018.1450664

Complete mitochondrial genome of the three Colombian Caribbean loggerhead sea turtles, using next-generation sequencing

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2018 May 21;3(2):626-627. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2018.1450664.

Authors

Javier Hernández-Fernández¹, David Arley Delgado Cano¹

Affiliation

¹ Universidad de Bogota Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales, Bogota, Cundinamarca, Colombia.

Abstract

The loggerhead turtle, Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758), is an endangered sea turtle in Colombian Caribbean beach. In the present study was sequenced the complete mitochondrial DNA of three loggerhead turtles using Illumina next-generation sequencing (NGS). The average nucleotide frequency was A: 35% T: 26%, C: 27% and G: 12%. This genome provides knowledge to the study of genetic variations and evolution of mitochondrial genomes of C. caretta. The sequences were deposited at the GenBank database under the accession number MF554690.1, MF579504.1 and MF579505.1.

Keywords: Caretta caretta; Illumina next-generation sequencing; mitogenome.