Complete mitochondrial DNA sequence of the endangered Tarim schizothoracin (Schizothorax biddulphi Günther)

Abstract

Tarim schizothoracin (Schizothorax biddulphi Günther) is an extremely endangered freshwater fish that thrives only in the Tarim River drainage in China. In this paper, we initially determined the complete mitochondrial genome of schizothoracin fishes. The mitochondrial genome of S. biddulphi was 16,585 bp long, which is similar to most vertebrates. It contains the same gene order and a similar number of gene or region including 13 protein-coding genes, 2 rRNA genes, 22 tRNA genes, and 1 putative control region.

Keywords::

• Schizothorax biddulphi
• mitogenome
• schizothoracin

Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank Anyuan He for his assistance in the experiment. This work was supported by Shanghai Ocean University and Xinjiang Bohu Reed Industry Co., Ltd. (Grant No. d-8006-10-0047), the Shanghai Education Committee Foundation (S30701), and the Shanghai Science and Technology Committee Project (Grant No. 10dz1200804).

Declaration of interest : The authors report no conflict of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the paper.