Abstract
The complete mitochondrial genome of Grammistes sexlineatus was first determined and studied in the present study. The mitochondrial genome was 16,502 nucleotides that contained 13 protein-coding genes, 22 tRNA genes, 2 ribosomal RNA genes and one putative control region. The overall base composition of G. sexlineatus was T 23.74%, C 31.05%, A 28.79%, and G 16.42%, with a slight A + T bias of 52.53%. The gene order and composition of G. sexlineatus mitogenome was similar to the most vertebrate. Meanwhile, a termination-associated sequence (TAS) and the conserved sequence blocks (CSB-2 and CSB-3) were determined in G. sexlineatus control region. The mitochondrial genome would play key role in phylogenetics analysis of the Serranidae.
Acknowledgements
We thank Prof. Shenglong Zhao for sampling and morphologically identifying.
Declaration of interest
The authors report no conflicts of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the paper. This study was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (31272661), Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation (LY13C040001) and K.C. Wong Magna Fund at Ningbo University.