Complete mitochondrial genome of stripped eel catfish (Plotosus lineatus)

Zhiqiang Ruan; Hui Yu; Jia Li; Liang Ma; Zhaogen Wang; Ying Lei; Qiong Shi

doi:10.1080/23802359.2016.1144093

Complete mitochondrial genome of stripped eel catfish (Plotosus lineatus)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2016 Mar 28;1(1):130-131. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2016.1144093.

Authors

Zhiqiang Ruan¹, Hui Yu², Jia Li², Liang Ma³, Zhaogen Wang³, Ying Lei³, Qiong Shi^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Shenzhen Key Lab of Marine Genomics, Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Molecular Breeding in Marine Economic Animals, BGI, Shenzhen, China.
² BGI Education Center, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China.
³ Zhenjiang Agriculture Committee, Zhenjiang, China.

Abstract

The complete mitochondrial genome of stripped eel catfish, Plotosus lineatus, is sequenced in this study. The mitochondrial genome sequence is 16 480 bp in length, with the base composition of 24.7% A, 31.8% T, 27.8% G and 15.7% C. The G + C content is 43.5%. The mitochondria includes 13 protein-coding genes, 22 transfer RNA genes, two ribosomal RNA genes and one D-loop region. Except for NAD6 gene and eight tRNA genes, all other mitochondrial genes were encoded on the heavy strand. Plotosus lineatus was confirmed to be closely related to P. japonicus (GenBank: KR270437.1), based on our phylogenetic analysis on complete mitochondrial genome sequences of 13 species. Our complete mitogenome data are going to provide the basis for taxonomic and phylogenetic research of catfishes.

Keywords: Complete mitochondrial genome; Plotosus lineatus; Siluriformes.