Abstract
The long PCR and primer walking methods are employed for determining the complete mitochondrial genome sequence of Pampus echinogaster. The mitogenome is a circular molecule of 17,694 bp in length including the structure of 13 protein-coding genes, 2 ribosomal RNA genes, 23 transfer RNA genes and 2 non-coding regions (L-strand replication origin and control region). Two tRNAMet genes are identified in the tRNA-IQM region. Within the control region, we identify the termination-associated sequence domain (TAS), a central conserved domain (CSB-F, CSB-E and CSB-D) and three conserved sequence blocks (CSB-1, CSB-2 and CSB-3). There are 10 copies of tandem repeats of 120–124 bp in the control region, which contain CSB-3.
Acknowledgements
We are grateful to Dr. Ning Li for her helpful comments on the manuscript.
Declaration of interest
This study was supported by Public Science and Technology Research Funds Projects of Ocean (201305030; 201405010). The authors report no conflicts of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the paper.