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Abstract
Spotted longbarbel catfish, Hemibagrus guttatus (Siluriformes, Bagridae), is regarded as one of the “four famous fish” in the Pearl River system in China. So far, very few genomic resources from this species were available. In the present study, the complete mitochondrial genome of H. guttatus was determined to be 16,528 bp long circular molecule with a typical gene arrangement of vertebrate mitochondrial DNA. It includes 22 transfer RNA genes, 2 ribosomal RNA genes, 13 protein-coding genes, and a non-coding control region (D-loop). The complete mtDNA genome sequence obtained in this study would be useful for studying genetic diversity and phylogenetics in H. guttatus and related taxa in future.
Acknowledgements
We are grateful to Dr Hongwei Liang from Yangtze River Fisheries Research Institute, CAFS for technical assistant.
Declaration of interest
The authors report no conflicts of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the paper.
The research was supported and funded by the projects of Monographic Study on Hydroecology of Retrospective Environmental Impact Assessment of Comprehensive Utilization Planning of Hongshui River and National Natural Science Foundation of China (51309166).