Complete mitochondrial genomes of domesticated and wild common carp (Cyprinus carpio L.)

Abstract

Glass red common carp (Cyprinus carpio var. wananensis) were occasionally found among wild common carp (Cyprinus carpio) 50 years ago. In this paper, we determined the complete sequences of Glass red common carp and wild common carp mitogenomes. Both mitogenomes exhibited the same length of 16,581 bp, order in 13 protein-coding genes, 22 tRNA genes, 2 rRNA genes and 1 control region. The sequence similarity between them reached 99.62% and 100% in 21 tRNA genes (excluding tRNA^Ser) and 2 protein-coding genes (ATP8 and ND4L), respectively. The two mitogenomes will be useful in elucidating the evolutional relationship of the common carp.

• Common carp
• mitogenome
• similarity

Acknowledgements

We are grateful to Dr. Lixia Fu at Yangzhou University for his help in sampling wild common carp.

Declaration of interest

The authors report no conflicts of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of this article. This work was supported by the Special Fund for Agro-scientific Research in the Public Interest (200903045) and the Shanghai Science and Technology Project (grant no. 123919N1100).