Abstract
In this study, the complete mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) sequence of Nibea coibor has been determined by long polymerase chain reaction and primer walking methods. The complete mitochondrial genome is 16,509 bp in length and contains 37 mitochondrial genes (13 protein-coding genes, 2 ribosomal RNA (rRNA), 22 transfer RNA (tRNA)) and a control region as other bony fishes. Within the control region, we identified the termination-associated sequence domain (TAS), the central conserved sequence block domains (CSB-F, CSB-E, CSB-D and CSB-C), and the conserved sequence block domains (CSB-2, CSB-3).
Acknowledgements
We are grateful to Mr. Jiaguang Xiao for the sample collection.
Declaration of interest
This study was supported by the Public Science and Technology Research Funds Project of Ocean (201305043, 201305030) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30471329). The authors report no conflicts of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the paper.