title: The mitochondrial genome of Polylabris halichoeres (Monogenea: Microcotylidae).
abstract: This study presents the complete mitochondrial (mt) genome of Polylabris halichoeres, which is the largest mt genome sequenced of monogeneans so far and the second complete sequence after Microcotyle sebastis from the Microcotylidae. It is basically similar to that of M. sebastis, with the exception of a high level of gene rearrangement located between trnC and trnL((UUR)), a translocation of trnM and trnH, as well as a highly repetitive region (HRR) in the large non-coding region (NCR). We also find a series of trnI pseudogenes (ΨI) and one unknown short open reading frame (ORF) in the large NCR. Although the ORF cannot be unambiguously regarded as an atp8 gene, we cannot rule out the possibility that it has other functional importance, but it need further study in the future.
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory for Aquatic Products Safety of Ministry of Education/State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Haizhu District, Guangzhou, PR China.
authors.forename: Juan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Xiangyun
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Mingquan
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Xie
authors.forename: Xiaodong
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Anxing
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D015321:Gene Rearrangement / Q000235:genetics; D054629:Genome, Mitochondrial / Q000235:genetics*; D023281:Genomics / Q000379:methods; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016366:Open Reading Frames / Q000235:genetics; D010986:Platyhelminths / Q000235:genetics*; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D013045:Species Specificity