The complete mitochondrial genome of the sandbar shark Carcharhinus plumbeus

Abstract

The sandbar shark, Carcharhinus plumbeus, a major representative species in shark fisheries worldwide is now considered vulnerable to overfishing. A pool of 774,234 Roche 454 shotgun sequences from one individual were assembled into a 16,706 bp mitogenome with 33× average coverage depth. It comprised 13 protein coding genes, 22 transfer RNA’s, 2 ribosomal genes and 2 non-coding regions, typical of a vertebrate mitogenome. As expected for sharks, an A-T nucleotide bias was evident. This adds to rapidly growing number of mitogenome assemblies for the economically important Carcharhinidae family. The C. plumbeus mitogenome will assist researchers, fisheries and conservation managers interested in shark molecular systematics, phylogeography, conservation genetics, population and stock structure.

• 454 sequencing
• Carcharhinus plumbeus
• de novo genome assembly
• mitochondrial genome
• genome annotation

Declaration of interest

The authors report no conflicts of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the paper. This works was supported by Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) grant (2010/062) to Fisheries New South Wales (NSW) on behalf of the Australian Government, plus the NSW and Queensland governments.