title: Mitochondrial genome of longheaded eagle ray Aetobatus flagellum (Chondrichthyes: Myliobatidae).
abstract: The complete mitochondrial genome sequence of the Aetobatus flagellum is 20,201 bp long and consists of 13 protein-coding genes, 22 tRNA genes, 2 rRNA genes and 1 control region (CR). The base composition of the genome is 30.9% A, 28.2% T, 27.1% C and 13.8% G. Comparing mtDNA of elasmobranchs submitted in NCBI, our study not only identified the longest mitochondrial genome with 4490 bp CR in A. flagellum, but also strongly revealed that records in the northwest Pacific may belong to a separate species from those distributed in Indonesia.
authors.affiliation: a Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution , Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing , China .
authors.forename: Jie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: b School of Life Science, Anhui University , Hefei , China and.
authors.forename: Baojuan
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.affiliation: c Faculty of Fisheries , Nagasaki University , Nagasaki , Japan.
authors.forename: Atsuko
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Yamaguchi
authors.affiliation: c Faculty of Fisheries , Nagasaki University , Nagasaki , Japan.
authors.forename: Keisuke
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Furumitsu
authors.affiliation: b School of Life Science, Anhui University , Hefei , China and.
authors.forename: Baowei
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001482:Base Composition; D003062:Codon; D005399:Fishes / Q000235:genetics*; D050259:Genes, Mitochondrial; D054629:Genome, Mitochondrial; D023281:Genomics / Q000379:methods; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016366:Open Reading Frames; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA
chemical_list: D003062:Codon
keywords: Aetobatus flagellum; genome; mitochondrion