The complete mitochondrial genome sequence of Colossoma macropomum (Characiformes: Serrasalmidae)

Abstract

Colossoma macropomum (Cuvier, 1816) is the largest characin of South America. This species and its congeners mainly feed on zooplankton, insects, snails and decaying plants. In this paper, we sequenced and annotated the complete mitogenome of C. macropomum. The total length is 16,703 bp, and it typically consist of 37 genes, including 13 protein-coding genes, two rRNAs, 22 tRNA, a light-strand replication origin (O_L) and a large control region (D-loop). The overall base composition is 29.9%, 24.6%, 29.5% and 15.9% for A, T, C and G, respectively, with a slight bias on AT content (54.6%). All protein-coding genes share the start codon ATG, except for COI, which begins with GTG. Most of them have TAA or TAG as the stop codon, except COII, ND4 use AGA and COI, Cytb use an incomplete stop codon T. This information could provide useful molecular data and contribute to further phylogenetic studies of Characiformes and Serrasalmidae.

Keywords:

• Black pacu
• mitogenome
• phylogeny

Declaration of interest

This study was supported by the funding of Taiyuan University of Science and Technology (Grant No.2014031) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.30740037). The authors report no conflicts of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the paper.