The complete mitogenome of the Thai soldier crab Mictyris thailandensis Davie, Wisespongpand & Shih, 2013 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Mictyridae)

Abstract

Mictyris thailandensis has been described recently in the family Mictyridae which is found only in the Andaman Sea, west coast of Thailand. In this study, we performed shotgun genome sequencing of a male M. thailandensis using a paired-end (150 bp) sequencing chemistry on MGISEQ-2000RS and report the complete mitochondrial genome of M. thailandensis (15,557 bp). A total of 37 genes have been annotated: 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs), 22 transfer RNA genes (tRNAs), two ribosomal RNA genes (rRNAs), and a control region. Comparative phylogenetic analysis with 29 crustaceans based on 13 conserved genes demonstrated that M. thailandensis is closely related to other soldier crabs in the family Mictyridae. The mitogenome of M. thailandensis presented here provides useful genetic information to help understand the evolutionary relationships among the Mictyridae family members.

Keywords:

• Mictyris thailandensis
• soldier crab
• mitochondrial genome
• phylogenetic analysis

Acknowledgements

We acknowledge Krittanon Thotsagool and Narun Nattharom for locating the sampling site.

Disclosure statement

The authors declare no competing financial interests.

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/, accession number: MW697086.1. The associated BioProject, SRA, and Bio-Sample numbers are: PRJNA731290, SRR14597275, and SAMN19276314, respectively.

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Funding

This study was supported by the National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), Thailand, Grant number: [P1952246] (Management of biodiversity and indigenous knowledge in coastal shallow-water ecosystems in Satun Global Geopark for sustainable tourism).