The complete mitochondrial DNA of the tropical gar ( Atractosteus tropicus )

Abstract

The mitogenome of the tropical gar, Atractosteus tropicus, (GeneBank accession number KJ531198) has a total length of 16,280 bp, and the arrangement consist of 13 protein-coding genes, 2 ribosomal RNA (rRNA) genes and 22 transfer RNA similar to other Lepisosteidae family mitogenomes.

The complete mitochondrial DNA of the Cuban gar (Atractosteus tristoechus)

“…The mitogenome structure includes 13 proteincoding genes, two rRNA genes (12S and 16S), 22 tRNA genes and a control region (D-loop, located between tRNA-Pro and tRNA-Phe). Main mitogenome features in terms of structure; GC content and gene order were similar to other gar species (Inoue et al 2003;Broughton and Reneau 2006;Del R ıo-Portilla et al 2016;Yu et al 2016). A. tristoechus was phylogenetically close to A. spatula (Figure 1) as shown previously (Wright et al 2012).…”