Complete mitochondrial genome sequence of neotropical fish Astyanax giton Eigenmann 1908 (Ostariophysi; Characidae)

Cynthia Aparecida Valiati Barreto; Manuela Maria Cavalcante Granja; Pedro Marcus Pereira Vidigal; Anderson Oliveira Carmo; Jorge Abdala Dergam

doi:10.1080/23802359.2017.1403869

Complete mitochondrial genome sequence of neotropical fish Astyanax giton Eigenmann 1908 (Ostariophysi; Characidae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2017 Nov 25;2(2):839-840. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2017.1403869.

Authors

Cynthia Aparecida Valiati Barreto¹, Manuela Maria Cavalcante Granja¹, Pedro Marcus Pereira Vidigal², Anderson Oliveira Carmo³, Jorge Abdala Dergam¹

Affiliations

¹ Laboratório de Sistemática Molecular- Beagle, Departamento de Biologia Animal, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
² Núcleo de Análise de Biomoléculas (NuBioMol), Centro de Ciências Biológicas (CCB), Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
³ Departamento de Biologia Geral, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

Abstract

Here we report, for the first time, the complete mitochondrial genome of Astyanax giton which, together with other species, are popularly known as tetras. The mitogenome's length is 16,643 bp, containing 13 protein-encoding genes (CDS), two ribosomal RNAs (rRNA), 22 RNA transfer (tRNA) and one control region (D-loop). As for other vertebrates, all genes are encoded on the heavy strand except for ND6 and eight tRNA genes. In the phylogenetic analyses, this species and other Astyanax were paraphyletic.

Keywords: Freshwater fish; mitogenome; next-generation sequencing.