title: Complete mitochondrial genome of Rhynchocypris cf. lagowskii (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae).
abstract: Rhynchocypris lagowskii sensu lato (Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae) has been revealed as a species complex including two species, i.e. R. lagowskii sensu stricto and a cryptic species R. cf. lagowskii. We determined the first complete mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) of R. cf. lagowskii by comparing with a published mitogenome of R. lagowskii sensu stricto. The two species displayed similar pattern of mitochondrial gene arrangements and similar base compositions of the heavy strain with a bias in the A+T content. There were the nucleotide sequence similarity of 91.8% for mitogenomes and pairwise p-distance of 6.9% for COI genes between R. cf. lagowskii and R. lagowskii sensu stricto and these results supported the two species as different species.
authors.affiliation: Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Biodiversity Science and Ecological Engineering, and Institute of Biodiversity Science, Fudan University , Shanghai 200433 , China.
authors.forename: Wang
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Anhui
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Rong
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Xia
authors.forename: Cuizhang
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Fu
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001482:Base Composition; D003530:Cyprinidae / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics*; D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial / Q000032:analysis; D023061:Gene Order; D050259:Genes, Mitochondrial; D054629:Genome, Mitochondrial; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA / Q000379:methods*; D013045:Species Specificity
chemical_list: D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial
keywords: Cyprinidae; Cypriniformes; East Asia; Leuciscinae; Rhynchocypris; mitochondrial genome