The complete mitochondrial genome of the Zacco platypus, Huangshan, China (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae, subfamily Daninninae)

Abstract

The mitochondrial genome of Zacco platypus (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae, subfamily Daninninae) is a circular molecule of 16,611 bp in length, containing 37 typical animal mitochondrial genes: 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs), 2 ribosomal RNAs, 22 transfer RNAs and a D-loop region. Its gene order and arrangement are identical to the common type found in most fish mitogenomes. All PCGs start with a typical ATG codon except for COI which use GTG as start codon; all PCGs terminate in the common stop codon TAA or TAG, except for the COII which use single T as stop codon. The D-loop region is 928 bp long, located between tRNA^Pro and tRNA^Phe genes. It contains some structures of repeated motifs and microsatellite-like elements characteristic of the Cyprinidae.

• Cyprinidae
• mitochondrial genome
• Zacco platypus

Acknowledgements

The authors wish to thank Guo Ping Zhu for his help with the article research.

Declaration of interest

The authors report no conflict of interest. The authors alone are also responsible for the content and writing of the paper.

This work was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China (31172120), The Research Culture Funds of Anhui Normal University, the Program for Innovative Research Team in Anhui Normal University. Thank professor Guo Ping Zhu for giving some fees of sequencing.