title: The complete mitochondrial genome of the Giant Manta ray, Manta birostris.
abstract: The complete mitochondrial genome of the giant manta ray (Manta birostris), consists of 18,075 bp with rich A + T and low G content. Gene organization and length is similar to other species of ray. It comprises of 13 protein-coding genes, 2 rRNAs genes, 23 tRNAs genes and 1 non-coding sequence, and the control region. We identified an AT tandem repeat region, similar to that reported in Mobula japanica.
authors.affiliation: a Posgrado en Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Laboratorio de Genética de Organismos Acuáticos, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología , circuito interior s/n and.
authors.forename: Silvia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hinojosa-Alvarez
authors.affiliation: b Laboratorio de Genética de Organismos Acuáticos , Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología , circuito interior s/n, Ciudad Universitaria , México DF .
authors.forename: Pindaro
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Díaz-Jaimes
authors.affiliation: c Bioinformatics Programme, Centre de Regulació Genòmica (CRG) , Barcelona , Spain , and.|d Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) , Barcelona , Spain.
authors.forename: Marina
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Marcet-Houben
authors.affiliation: c Bioinformatics Programme, Centre de Regulació Genòmica (CRG) , Barcelona , Spain , and.|d Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) , Barcelona , Spain.
authors.forename: Toni
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Gabaldón
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001482:Base Composition; D018940:Elasmobranchii / Q000235:genetics*; D050259:Genes, Mitochondrial; D054629:Genome, Mitochondrial; D023281:Genomics / Q000379:methods; D016366:Open Reading Frames; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D020080:Tandem Repeat Sequences
keywords: Elasmobranches; giant manta ray; mitochondrial DNA