The complete mitochondrial genome of the surgeon fish Acanthurus lineatus Linnaeus 1758 (Perciformes: Acanthuridae)

Abstract

Acanthurid fishes are highly ornamental coral reef fishes, commonly called as surgeon fishes. In this study, the complete mitochondrial genome of Acanthurus lineatus was determined (GenBank accession no EU273284). The genome was circular, double-stranded molecules of 16,532 bp length encoded with 37 mitochondrial genes. It contained 13 protein-coding genes, 22tRNA genes, 2 rRNA genes and 852 bp long control region. The entire nucleotide composition was 29.84% A, 28.07% C, 26.60% T and 15.49% G with an A þ T content of 56.44%. Phylogenetic relationship of A. lineatus among the closely related species of Perciformes was studied based on H-strand protein-coding genes using the maximum parsimony method.

The first complete mitochondrial genomes of sawtail surgeonfishes (Acanthuridae: Prionurus)

“… 2007 ; Devadhasan et al. 2016a , 2016b ; Huang et al. 2017 ), with the exception of the genus Prionurus .…”

“…The family comprises six genera and 85 recognized species (Fricke et al 2019), most of which are herbivores that provide important ecosystem functions to reefs and an important link between primary producers and higher trophic levels (Randall 2001;Marshell and Mumby 2015). Mitochondrial genomes for most surgeonfish genera have been sequenced (Yamanoue et al 2007;Devadhasan et al 2016aDevadhasan et al , 2016bHuang et al 2017), with the exception of the genus Prionurus. Here, we report whole mitochondrial genomes for P. biafraensis (Blache and Rossignol 1961) Ludt et al (2019).…”