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Abstract
Sinocyclocheilus furcodorsalis, a typical cavefish, has evolved some striking characters, for example loss of its eyes and reduction in melanin pigmentation, and can serve as a good model system in evolutionary adaptation developmental mechanisms. So we cloned the complete mitochondrial DNA of S. furcodorsalis (16,581 bp), which is similar to those reported from other fish mitochondrial genomes, containing 37 genes (13 protein-coding genes, 2 ribosomal RNAs, and 22 transfer RNAs) and a major noncoding control region. The complete mitogenome of the S. furcodorsalis provides an additional important data-set for the study in evolutionary adaptation developmental mechanisms.
Declaration of interest Assistance was provided during fieldwork to collect samples used in this study by J.H. Lan. This work was financially supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Project No. 2009CB118702), National Natural Science Foundation of China (Project No. 31172420), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (2010PY010 and 2011PY030). The authors report no conflicts of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the paper.