Abstract
The complete mitochondrial genome of Crassostrea gasar was sequenced using the Ion Proton technology in combination with 454 Roche GS-FLX plataform data. We assembled a 17,686 bp complete circular mitochondrial genome, containing 13 protein-coding genes, a major non-coding region (MNR), two ribosomal RNA genes and 24 transfer RNA genes. Phylogenetic analysis of concatenated amino acid sequences from mitochondria showed monophyletic clades formed with high bootstrap values. This is the first complete mitochondrial sequence of an oyster from South America. Mitogenome sequence was deposited in GenBank under the accession number KR856227.
Acknowledgements
We would like to thank Guilherme Loss for assistance during the analysis.
Declaration of interest
This work was supported by the Brazilian funding agencies CNPq (project numbers 406641/2012-9 and 443366/2014-4), MPA, FAPERJ and FINEP. The authors declare no conflict of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the paper.