The complete mitochondrial genome of Sillago sihama (Perciformes: Sillaginidae)

Abstract

In this study, the complete mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) sequence of Sillago sihama has been determined by long polymerase chain reaction and primer walking methods. The complete mitochondrial genome is a circular molecule of 17 003 bp in length and contains 37 mitochondrial genes and a control region. Within the control region, we identified the variable number tandem repeats, as well as the termination-associated sequence domain (TAS), the central conserved sequence block domains (CSB-F∼CSB-A) and the conserved sequence block domains (CSB-1, CSB-2, and CSB-3).

• Control region
• mitochondrial genome
• Sillago sihama
• Sillaginidae
• tandem repeats

Acknowledgements

The authors are grateful to Mr. Binbin Shan for the sample collection.

Declaration of interest

This study was supported by the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2013M540566) and the Public Science and Technology Research Funds Projects of Ocean (201305043). The authors report no conflicts of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the paper.