title: Complete mitochondrial DNA sequencing of Vieja synspila, a cichlid fish.
abstract: The Redhead cichlid (Vieja synspila) is an important aquarium fish and a useful phylogenetic organism of the Cichlidae family. In this study, we sequenced the mitochondrial genome of the Redhead cichlid for the first time. The mitogenome (16,543 bp) had the typical mitochondrial characteristics of other cichlid fish, including 13 protein-coding, 22 tRNA, two rRNA genes and one putative control region. This sequence will be helpful in studying the phylogenetic relationships between cichlid fish.
authors.affiliation: a Key Laboratory of Freshwater Fishery Germplasm Resources , Ministry of Agriculture of P.R. China, Shanghai University Knowledge Service Platform, Shanghai Ocean University Aquatic Animal Breeding Center (ZF1206) , Shanghai , P.R. China.
authors.forename: Bin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.affiliation: a Key Laboratory of Freshwater Fishery Germplasm Resources , Ministry of Agriculture of P.R. China, Shanghai University Knowledge Service Platform, Shanghai Ocean University Aquatic Animal Breeding Center (ZF1206) , Shanghai , P.R. China.
authors.forename: Jianzhong
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.affiliation: a Key Laboratory of Freshwater Fishery Germplasm Resources , Ministry of Agriculture of P.R. China, Shanghai University Knowledge Service Platform, Shanghai Ocean University Aquatic Animal Breeding Center (ZF1206) , Shanghai , P.R. China.
authors.forename: Xuelong
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: a Key Laboratory of Freshwater Fishery Germplasm Resources , Ministry of Agriculture of P.R. China, Shanghai University Knowledge Service Platform, Shanghai Ocean University Aquatic Animal Breeding Center (ZF1206) , Shanghai , P.R. China.
authors.forename: Zaizhong
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: a Key Laboratory of Freshwater Fishery Germplasm Resources , Ministry of Agriculture of P.R. China, Shanghai University Knowledge Service Platform, Shanghai Ocean University Aquatic Animal Breeding Center (ZF1206) , Shanghai , P.R. China.
authors.forename: Chenghui
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D023681:Cichlids / Q000235:genetics*; D020459:Genes, rRNA / Q000235:genetics; D054629:Genome, Mitochondrial / Q000235:genetics*; D058977:Molecular Sequence Annotation; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016366:Open Reading Frames / Q000235:genetics; D010802:Phylogeny; D012343:RNA, Transfer / Q000235:genetics; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA
chemical_list: D012343:RNA, Transfer
keywords: Cichlida; Redhead cichlid; mitogenome