Abstract
In this study, the complete mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) sequence of Lota lota has been determined by long polymerase chain reaction and primer walking methods. The mitogenome is a circular molecule of 16,519 bp in length and contains 37 mitochondrial genes including 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 and CSB-D), and the conserved sequence block domains (CSB-1, CSB-2 and CSB-3).
Acknowledgements
We are grateful to Mr. Yanping Wang for his helpful comments.
Declaration of interest
This research was supported by the Heilongjiang Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences and State 863 High-Technology R&D Project of China (no. 2012AA10A413). The authors report no conflicts of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the paper.