Complete mitochondrial genomes of paired species northern brook lamprey (Ichthyomyzon fossor) and silver lamprey (I. unicuspis)

Abstract

The complete mitogenomes of paired species northern brook lamprey (Ichthyomyzon fossor) and silver lamprey (I. unicuspis) is reported. The two mitogenomes show a 13 bp length difference on the tRNA-Gly and two control regions. The gene order and contents are conserved in the two lampreys and identical to the lamprey mitogenomes published. Except for three indel polymorphic sites, there are 27 SNP sites which are all synonymous substitution sites and occurred on 9 protein-coding genes, two rRNAs and one tRNA. The control region1 contains six consecutive 39-nt repetitive strings in both lampreys. A 7-nt repetitive string in the control region2 is repeated 3 and 5 times in northern brook lamprey and silver lamprey, respectively. The observed level of similarity between nucleotide sequences (99.74%) is consistent with the hypothesis that northern brook lamprey and silver lamprey represent two ecotypes of one species.

• Control region
• mitogenome
• northern brook lamprey
• paired species
• repeat sequence
• silver lamprey

Declaration of interest

The authors declare that they have no competing interests. This work was supported by a grant of the Excellent Young Teachers Program of Shanghai (to JR), Shanghai Outstanding Undergraduate Scholarship for Interdisciplinary Training (to JP) and First Class Discipline Construction (to WL). TB and WL also received support from the Great Lakes Fishery Commission.