The complete mitochondrial genome of Tetraclita japonica (Crustacea: Maxillopoda: Sessilia) from Zhejiang (China) and phylogeny within Sessilia

Abstract

The complete mitochondrial genome of Tetraclita japonica (Crustacea: Maxillopoda: Sessilia) from Zhejiang (China) was presented (T. japonica ZJ). The genome is a circular molecule of 15,192 bp, all non-coding regions are 694 bp in length, and the longest one (307 bp) is located between 12S rRNA and trnK. Phylogenetic analysis based on mitochondrial PCGs shows that T. japonica ZJ clusters with T. japonica CN, and they grouped with T. japonica (BP = 100), then grouped with Tesseropora rosea, Tetraclita serrata, Tetraclita rufotincta, Epopella plicata, and Tetraclitella divisa successively . The phylogenetic tree indicated that the Balanidae and Archaeobalanidae are polyphyletic, while the Chthamalidae is monophyletic. The result can help us to understand the phylogenetic history within Sessilia.

Keywords:

• Sessilia
• Tetraclita japonica
• mitochondrial genome
• selection pressure
• phylogeny

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Data availability statement

The data that support the findings of this study are openly available in GenBank of NCBI at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov, reference number MN891699.

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Funding

This work was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province [BK20190048], the National Natural Science Foundation of China [41876147], Science Foundation of Jiangsu Ocean University [Z2016012], the Natural Science Research Program for Higher Education in Jiangsu Province [17KJB170003], and also funded by the Jiangsu Priority Academic Program Development (PAPD). Postgraduate Graduate Research & Practice Innovation Programs [KYCX20_2880, KYCX19_2291], Jiangsu Qinglan, Six Talent Peaks and Lianyungang 521 Talent Projects.