Abstract
In this study, the complete mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) sequence of Saurida microlepis has been determined by long PCR and primer walking methods. The complete mitochondrial genome is a circular molecule of 16,510 bp in length and contains the same set of 37 mitochondrial genes (13 protein-coding genes, 2 ribosomal RNA (rRNA), 22 transfer RNA (tRNA)), and a control region as other bony fishes. Within the control region, we identified the termination-associated sequence domain (TAS), the central conserved sequence block domains (CSB-F, CSB-E, CSB-D, CSB-C, CSB-B and CSB-A), and the conserved sequence block domains (CSB-1, CSB-2 and CSB-3).
Acknowledgements
We are grateful to Mr. Yuan Li and Mr. Long Li for the sample collection.
Declaration of interest
This study was supported by the Public Science and Technology Research Funds Project of Ocean (201305043), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (201262022) and Nekton Research Funds Projects of Central and Southern South China Sea. The authors report no conflicts of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the paper.