Characterization and phylogenetic analysis of the complete mitochondrial genome of the rainbow krib, Pelvicachromis pulcher (Perciformes: Cichlidae)

Sang-Eun Nam; Hye-Jin Eom; Hyoung Sook Park; Jae-Sung Rhee

doi:10.1080/23802359.2022.2079099

Characterization and phylogenetic analysis of the complete mitochondrial genome of the rainbow krib, Pelvicachromis pulcher (Perciformes: Cichlidae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2022 Jun 2;7(6):918-920. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2022.2079099. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Sang-Eun Nam¹, Hye-Jin Eom¹, Hyoung Sook Park², Jae-Sung Rhee^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Marine Science, College of Natural Sciences, Incheon National University, Incheon, South Korea.
² Department of Song-Do Bio-Environmental Engineering, Incheon Jaeneung University, Incheon, South Korea.
³ Research Institute of Basic Sciences, Incheon National University, Incheon, South Korea.
⁴ Yellow Sea Research Institute, Incheon, South Korea.

Abstract

We report the complete mitochondrial genome information of the rainbow krib, Pelvicachromis pulcher (Boulenger 1901). Illumina HiSeq genome sequencing allowed the assembly of a circular mitogenome of 17,196 base pairs (bp) from P. pulcher consisting of 47% GC nucleotides, 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs), 2 ribosomal RNA (rRNA) genes, 22 transfer RNA (tRNA) genes, and a putative control region in the typical teleost gene composition. The gene order of the P. pulcher mitogenome was identical to that of other cichlid species. A maximum likelihood phylogenetic tree based on mitochondrial PCGs showed a relationship of P. pulcher with a cichlid Tylochromis polylepis (Boulenger 1900), suggesting that more complete mitogenomes are needed to explore mitogenome evolution in West African tribes and riverine cichlids, as this genomic information is the first complete mitogenome in the tribe Chromidotilapiini.

Keywords: Complete mitogenome; Pelvicachromis pulcher; cichlid fish; phylogenetic analysis.

Grants and funding

This research was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education [NRF-2017R1A6A1A06015181].