Characterization of the complete mitochondrial genome of Rhinogobius leavelli (Perciformes: Gobiidae: Gobionellinae) and its phylogenetic analysis for Gobionellinae

Abstract

Freshwater Gobionellinae fish Rhinogobius leavelli is a common small-bodied species, distributed in eastern Asia. Information about genetic characteristics of Rhinogobius fish had been published only for five species, and there were still no relevant reports on R. leavelli. In the present study, the complete mitochondrial genome of R. leavelli was determined, which was 16,499 bp in length with A + T content of 52.5%, consisting of 13 protein-coding genes, 2 ribosomal RNAs, 22 tRNAs, and a control region. The gene composition and the structural arrangement of the R. leavelli complete mtDNA were identical to other Rhinogobius species and most of other teleosts. Phylogenetic analyses placed R. leavelli in a well-supported monophyletic cluster with the other five Rhinogobius species in Gobionellinae and the phylogenetic position of Rhinogobius was closer to Tridentiger.

Characteristic and phylogenetic analyses of mitochondrial genome for Rhinogobius filamentosus (Teleostei: Gobiidae: Gobionellinae), an endemic species in China

“… 2020 ), R. cliffordpopei (Wang et al. 2019 ), R. leavelli (Zhang and Shen 2019 ), R. rubromaculatus ) formed Clade B. Furthermore, R. filamentosus clustered with R. duospilus , and they formed a sister-group relationship with the other ten Rhinogobius species.…”

“… 2018 ; Chen et al. 2019 ; Zhang and Shen 2019 ), there were still no relevant reports on the genetic characteristics and phylogenetic position of R. filamentosus . This research aimed to sequence the complete mitogenome of R. filamentosus, provide fundamental molecular data for evolution, and determine its phylogenetic placement in the genus Rhinogobius .…”

Two new species of Rhinogobius (Gobiiformes: Oxudercidae) from Palawan, Philippines, with their phylogenetic placement

“…sequencing data were used for mitochondrial genome assembly for each sample. We performed molecular phylogenetic analyses of our aligned mitochondrial genomes along with mitochondrial genome sequences of R. cliffordpopei (Nichols), R. duospilus (Herre), and R. leavelli (Herre) from the International Nucleotide Sequence Database published by Tan et al (2020), Wang et al (2019), and Zhang & Shen (2019), using the GTR+I+Gamma model, and performed a maximum likelihood (ML) analysis using RAxML version 8.2.3 (Stamatakis, 2014) Diagnosis. Pectoral fin with 14-16 rays (usually 15 rays).…”

Complete mitochondrial genome of Acrossocheilus yunnanensis (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae: Acrossocheilus) and its phylogenetic analysis

“…In recent years, artificial breeding of this fish species has been successful and artificial cultivation has been carried out in some areas of Yunnan Province, China. Mitochondrial genome can provide sufficient resources for genome-wide evolutionary studies and has demonstrated the potential to resolve phylogenetic relationships at different taxonomic levels, and understand the structure and functional evolution (Zhang and Shen 2019 ; Shen et al. 2020 ; Yang et al.…”