Abstract
The complete mitochondrial genome was sequenced from one of the endemic bitterling fish in China. The mitochondrial genome sequence was 16,575 bp in size, and the gene order and contents were identical with the species of the same subfamily like T. lanceolata, T. limbata, Acheilognathus macropterus and A. yamatsutae. Five genes (COII, COIII, ND3, ND6, and CYTB) had an incomplete stop codon. Base composition of the genome is A (29.2%), T (27.4%), C (26.2%), and G (17.2%) with an A+T-rich feature (56.6%) as that of other vertebrate mitochondrial genomes.
Acknowledgements
The authors thank Prof. Peng for his comments on the manuscript.
Declaration of interest
The authors report that they have no conflict of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the paper. This work was supported by Grant cstc2014jcyjA80001 from Natural Science Foundation Project of Chongqing, Grant 2013M542239 from National Science Foundation for Post-doctoral Scientists of China, Grant XDJK2013C039 from the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, and Grant SWU112027 from Doctor Foundation Project of Southwest University.