The complete mitochondrial genome of the Amur soft-shelled turtle (Pelodiscus maackii Brandt, 1858), from South Korea

Abstract

In this study, we use a specimen from wild-caught individual to determine the complete mitochondrial genome of the Amur soft-shelled turtle (Pelodiscus maackii). The complete mitogenome of P. maackii has 16,258 bp in length and consists of 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs), 22 tRNAs, two rRNAs, and one control region. The arrangement of genes of P. maackii is identical with previously reported mitogenomes in the family Trionychoidea. According to our result, the ML tree for the phylogenetic reconstruction revealed that the individuals used in present study is closely related with the previously reported sequences of P. sinensis (AY962573 and MG431983) in p-distance 0.7% and 2.5%.

Keywords:

• Pelodiscus maackii
• Amur soft-shelled turtle
• Korean peninsula
• complete mitogenome

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Data availability statement

The genome sequence data that support the findings of this study are openly available in GenBank of NCBI at (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/) under the accession no. OK377340. The associated BioProject, SRA and Bio-Sample numbers are PRJNA768941, SRX12511000 and SAMN22071900 respectively.

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Funding

This works was supported by a grant from the National Institute of Ecology (NIE), funded by the Ministry of Environment (MOE) of the Republic of Korea [NIE-A-2022-09].