The complete mitogenome of the giant clam Tridacna squamosa (Heterodonta: Bivalvia: Tridacnidae)

Gan HM 1 , Gan HY 1 , Tan MH 1 , Penny SS 2 , Willan RC 3 , Austin CM 1

Affiliations 

  • 1 a School of Science, Monash University Malaysia, Jalan Lagoon Selatan , Petaling Jaya , Selangor , Malaysia
  • 2 c Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University , Darwin , Australia , and
  • 3 d Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory , Darwin , Australia
Mitochondrial DNA A DNA Mapp Seq Anal, 2016 09;27(5):3220-1.
PMID: 25648928 DOI: 10.3109/19401736.2015.1007355

Abstract

The complete mitochondrial genome of the commercially and ecologically important and internationally vulnerable giant clam Tridacna squamosa was recovered by genome skimming using the MiSeq platform. The T. squamosa mitogenome has 20,930 base pairs (62.35% A+T content) and is made up of 12 protein-coding genes, 2 ribosomal subunit genes, 24 transfer RNAs, and a 2594 bp non-coding AT-rich region. The mitogenome has a relatively large insertion in the atp6 gene. This is the first mitogenome to be sequenced from the genus Tridacna, and the family Tridacnidae and represents a new gene order.

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