The complete mitogenome of the Macquarie perch, Macquaria australasica Cuvier, 1830 (Teleostei: Percichthyidae)

Abstract

The complete mitochondrial genome of the conservationally significant Macquarie perch (Macquaria australasica) was obtained from low-coverage shotgun sequencing using the MiSeq sequencer. The M. australasica mitogenome has 16,496 base pairs (55% A + T content) made up of 13 protein-coding genes, 2 ribosomal subunit genes, 22 transfer RNAs, and a 819 bp non-coding AT-rich region. This is the first mitogenome sequence for the genus Macquaria, and the third to be reported for the family Percichthyidae.

• Mitogenome
• molecular resource
• Percichthyidae

Acknowledgements

We are grateful to Zeb Tonkin for collecting and providing us with the tissue sample for this study.

Declaration of interest

This study was funded by the Monash University Malaysia, Tropical Medicine and Biology Multidisciplinary Platform. The authors report no conflicts of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the paper.