Complete mitogenome of two moray eels of Gymnothorax formosus and Scuticaria tigrina (Anguilliformes: Muraenidae)

Loh KH 1 , Shao KT 2 , Chen CH 3 , Chen HM 4 , Then AY 5 , Loo PL 1 Show all authors , Lim PE 1 , Chong VC 1 , Shen KN 6 , Hsiao CD 7

Affiliations 

  • 1 a Institute of Ocean and Earth Sciences, University of Malaya , Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia
  • 2 b Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica , Taipei , Taiwan
  • 3 c WeThink Biotech INC. , Taoyuan , Taiwan
  • 4 d Department of Aquaculture , National Taiwan Ocean University , Keelung , Taiwan
  • 5 e Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Malaya , Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia
  • 6 f Center of Excellence for the Oceans, National Taiwan Ocean University , Keelung , Taiwan , and
  • 7 g Department of Bioscience Technology , Chung Yuan Christian University , Chung-Li , Taiwan
Mitochondrial DNA A DNA Mapp Seq Anal, 2016 Jul;27(4):2651-2.
PMID: 26029876 DOI: 10.3109/19401736.2015.1043530

Abstract

In this study, the complete mitogenome sequence of two moray eels of Gymnothorax formosus and Scuticaria tigrina (Anguilliformes: Muraenidae) has been sequenced by the next-generation sequencing method. The assembled mitogenome, with the length of 16,558 bp for G. formosus and 16,521 bp for S. tigrina, shows 78% identity to each other. Both mitogenomes follow the typical vertebrate arrangement, including 13 protein coding genes, 22 transfer RNAs, two ribosomal RNAs genes, and a non-coding control region of D-loop. The length of D-loop is 927 bp (G. formosus) and 850 bp (S. tigrina), which is located between tRNA-Pro and tRNA-Phe. The overall GC content is 45.5% for G. formosus and 47.9% for S. tigrina. Complete mitogenomes of G. formosus and S. tigrina provide essential and important DNA molecular data for further phylogenetic and evolutionary analysis for moray eel.

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