title: Mitochondrial genome of the bull shark Carcharhinus leucas (Carcharhiniformes: Carcharhinidae).
abstract: The bull shark Carcharhinus leucas is a large elasmobranch species widespread in tropical and warm oceans, rivers and lakes. We first determine the complete mitogenome of C. leucas in this article. It is 16,704 bp in length, consists 37 genes and one control region with the typical gene order in vertebrates. The ND6 gene used the rare AGG as stop codon. The 22 tRNA genes ranged from 67 to 75 bp. The tRNA-Ser2 lacks the dihydrouridine arm and cannot form the typical cloverleaf structure. The control region is 1066 bp in length with high A+T and low G contents.
authors.affiliation: a Guangxi Key Lab for Mangrove Conservation and Utilization , Guangxi Mangrove Research Center, Guangxi Academy of Sciences , Beihai , PR China and.
authors.forename: Xiao
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: b State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science , College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University , Xiamen , Fujian , PR of China.
authors.forename: Min
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: a Guangxi Key Lab for Mangrove Conservation and Utilization , Guangxi Mangrove Research Center, Guangxi Academy of Sciences , Beihai , PR China and.
authors.forename: Zaiqing
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Peng
authors.affiliation: a Guangxi Key Lab for Mangrove Conservation and Utilization , Guangxi Mangrove Research Center, Guangxi Academy of Sciences , Beihai , PR China and.
authors.forename: Xiaofang
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Shi
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D003576:Electron Transport Complex IV / Q000235:genetics; D054629:Genome, Mitochondrial; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D012343:RNA, Transfer / Q000235:genetics; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D012754:Sharks / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D012343:RNA, Transfer; D003576:Electron Transport Complex IV
keywords: Elasmobranchii; mitogenome; widespread