The complete mitochondrial genome sequence of Zebrias crossolepis (pleuronectiformes: soleidae) and Acrossocheilus monticola (cypriniformes: cyprinidae) and phylogenetic studies

Abstract

In this study, two complete mitogenome sequences of Zebrias crossolepis and Acrossocheilus monticola were determined and the phylogenetic relationship were constructed based on concatenated nucleotide sequences of 12 mitochondrial protein-coding genes. The length of the complete mitogenome sequence are 16 775 bp and 16 605 bp in Z. crossolepis and A. monticola, respectively, both containing 13 protein-coding genes, two rRNA genes, 22 tRNA genes, a putative control region (CR), and a light-strand replication origin (O_L). The overall base composition is 28.3% A, 26.3% T, 30.0% C, 15.5% G, with a slight AT bias (54.6%) in Z. crossolepis, while 31.4% A, 24.5% T, 28.2% C, 15.9% G, with an slight AT bias (55.9%) in A. monticola. All the protein-coding genes use the initiation codon ATG except COI uses GTG. Most of them have TAA or TAG as the stop codon, while ND4 and Cytb in Z. crossolepis and COII, ND4, and Cytb in A. monticola use an incomplete stop codon T. These results are expected to provide useful molecular data for species identification and further phylogenetic studies.

Keywords:

• Control region
• mitochondrial genome
• phylogenetic tree