Mitogenome sequence of a Black Sea isolate of the kinetoplastid Bodo saltans

Romain Gastineau; Claude Lemieux; Monique Turmel; Nikolaï A Davidovich; Olga I Davidovich; Jean-Luc Mouget; Andrzej Witkowski

doi:10.1080/23802359.2018.1507654

Mitogenome sequence of a Black Sea isolate of the kinetoplastid Bodo saltans

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2018 Sep 10;3(2):968-969. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2018.1507654.

Authors

Romain Gastineau¹, Claude Lemieux², Monique Turmel², Nikolaï A Davidovich^{1

3}, Olga I Davidovich³, Jean-Luc Mouget⁴, Andrzej Witkowski¹

Affiliations

¹ Natural Sciences Research and Educational Center and Palaeoceanology Unit, Faculty of Geosciences, University of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland.
² Département de biochimie, de microbiologie et de bio-informatique, Institut de Biologie Intégrative et des Systèmes, Université Laval, Québec, Canada.
³ T. I. Vyasemsky Karadag scientific station - Nature Reserve, Feodosiya, Russia.
⁴ Mer, Molécules, Santé (MMS), FR CNRS 3473 IUML, Le Mans Université, Le Mans, France.

Abstract

We obtained the mitogenome sequence of a Black Sea isolate of the kinetoplastid Bodo saltans. This sequence consists of two contigs totaling 24,925 bp and encodes ten protein-coding genes, one conserved ORF and one rRNA gene. Alignment of the Black Sea mitogenome with the limited sequence data currently available in public databases for another strain of B. saltans revealed significant genetic divergence between the two isolates. Maximum likelihood phylogenetic inference clearly resolved the Bodonidae from the Trypanosomatidae.

Keywords: Black Sea; Bodo saltans; kinetoplastida; maxicircle; next generation seqencing.