The complete mitochondrial genome of Membranipora villosa Hincks, 1880 (Bryozoa: Gymnolaemata: Cheilostomatida): phylogenetic relationship of two kelp-encrusting bryozoans within the suborder Membraniporina

Figures & data

Figure 1. Membranipora villosa. (A) Colony encrusting Saccharina japonica, from kelp farm. (B) Autozooids, bleached, showing serrated lateral borders of cryptocyst and a short, blunt, hollow, spine-like knob at each proximal corner, SEM image, scale bar:1cm (a), 100㎛ (B). Photographs were taken by Geon Woo Noh (SEM image) and Ji Eun Seo (colony).

Figure 2. Circular map of the mitogenome of M. villosa.

Figure 3. Maximum-likelihood tree based on concatenated 13 PCGs sequence dataset from nine bryozoan species. Two bugulid species were used as outgroups. GenBank accession numbers of each sequence were marked behind their corresponding species names in the tree. The following sequences were used: Biflustra grandicella (NC018355; Shen et al. 2012), Membranipora membranacea (OU612076; Grant et al. 2023), Jellyella tuberculata (OK244880; reference not available), Sinoflustra amoyensis (OK245016; reference not available), Electra pilosa (MT293093; reference not available), Electra scuticifera (MT293082; reference not available), Bugula pugeti (OK244758; reference not available) and Bugula neritina (NC010197; Jang and Hwang 2009).

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Data availability statement

The data supporting this study’s findings are available in the GenBank of NCBI at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov under the accession OR875983. The associated BioProject, SRA, and Bio-sample numbers are PRJNA1041575, SRX22552200, and SAMN38288304, respectively.