Abstract
The traditional polymerase chain reaction method was employed to obtain the complete mitochondrial genome of Cobitis lutheri from Fuyuan country, Heilongjiang province, China. The mitogenome was determined to be 16,639 bp in length. It contains 13 protein-coding genes, 2 rRNAs and 22 tRNAs. This is the first report on the complete mitogenome sequence of C. lutheri.
Acknowledgements
We are grateful to Mr. Zuofa Jiang and Changhai Zhou for their assistance during sample collection in the wild.
Declaration of interest
The authors report no conflicts of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the paper. We acknowledge grant support from the National High-Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 program; 2011AA100401), National Department Public Benefit Research Foundation of China (200903045), and China Ministry of Agriculture “948” Program (No. 2013-Z12).