The complete mitochondrial DNA sequence of Heterochaerus australis (Acoela, Convolutidae)

Abstract

One complete mitochondrial genomes (mitogenomes) was determined for Heterochaerus australis (Acoela, Convolutidae). Its mitochondrial genome size was 13,885 bp. The sequence contains 2 ribosomal RNA genes (rrnL and rrnS), 20 tRNA genes, and 12 protein-coding genes (PCGs). The A + T content of the complete mitochondrial genome sequence was 70.8%. The base composition showed a tendency of high AT. The resulted maximum likelihood (ML) tree supported that Acoela had a distant relationship with other orders of Turbellaria and the Xenacoelomorpha.

Keywords:

• Heterochaerus australis
• Acoela
• Xenacoelomorpha
• mitogenome

Disclousure 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 NCBI GenBank (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/) with reference number [MT370508].

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Funding

This work was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China [2018YFD0901603], Agriculture Seed Improvement Project of Shandong Province [2017LZGC010], and Central Public-interest Scientific Institution Basal Research Fund, CAFS [2020TD40].