Complete sequence of mitochondrial DNA of Gracilaria tenuistipitata var. liui (Rhodophyta)

Xianming Tang; Yue Li; Wei Zhou Chen; Tao Liu; Jing Zhang

doi:10.1080/23802359.2018.1524277

Complete sequence of mitochondrial DNA of Gracilaria tenuistipitata var. liui (Rhodophyta)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2018 Oct 29;3(2):1203-1204. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2018.1524277.

Authors

Xianming Tang¹, Yue Li², Wei Zhou Chen³, Tao Liu⁴, Jing Zhang⁵

Affiliations

¹ Hainan Academy of Ocean and Fisheries Sciences, Haikou, People's Republic of China.
² WuXi NextCODE, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.
³ Marine Biology Institute, Shantou University, Shantou, People's Republic of China.
⁴ College of Marine Life Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, People's Republic of China.
⁵ Qilu University of Technology, Shandong Academy of Sciences, Jinan, People's Republic of China.

Abstract

Here, the complete Gracilaria tenuistipitata var. liui mitogenome was determined and analyzed. The complete G. tenuistipitata var. liui mitogenome length was 25,879 bp and contained 50 genes including 24 protein-coding, 2 rRNA, and 23 tRNA genes and one unidentified open reading frame (ORF). Of the 24 protein-coding genes, 23 (95.83%) terminated with the stop codon TAA, and one (4.17%) with TAG (rps3 gene). All protein-coding genes in G. tenuistipitata var. liui started with ATG codon. Mitogenome phylogenetic analysis revealed that G. tenuistipitata var. liui firstly clustered together with Gracilaria tenuistipitata. The complete mitogenome sequence would help in understanding Gracilaria evolution.

Keywords: Gracilaria tenuistipitata var. liui; mitogenome; phylogenetic analysis.