title: The complete mitochondrial genome of the sandbar shark Carcharhinus plumbeus.
abstract: The sandbar shark, Carcharhinus plumbeus, a major representative species in shark fisheries worldwide is now considered vulnerable to overfishing. A pool of 774,234 Roche 454 shotgun sequences from one individual were assembled into a 16,706 bp mitogenome with 33× average coverage depth. It comprised 13 protein coding genes, 22 transfer RNA's, 2 ribosomal genes and 2 non-coding regions, typical of a vertebrate mitogenome. As expected for sharks, an A-T nucleotide bias was evident. This adds to rapidly growing number of mitogenome assemblies for the economically important Carcharhinidae family. The C. plumbeus mitogenome will assist researchers, fisheries and conservation managers interested in shark molecular systematics, phylogeography, conservation genetics, population and stock structure.
authors.affiliation: a School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland , St. Lucia , Australia and.
authors.forename: Dean C
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Blower
authors.affiliation: a School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland , St. Lucia , Australia and.|b Molecular Fisheries Laboratory , The University of Queensland , St. Lucia , Australia.
authors.forename: Jennifer R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Ovenden
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001482:Base Composition / Q000235:genetics; D001483:Base Sequence; D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial / Q000235:genetics*; D059646:Genome Size; D054629:Genome, Mitochondrial / Q000235:genetics*; D008928:Mitochondria / Q000235:genetics*; D012335:RNA, Ribosomal / Q000235:genetics; D012343:RNA, Transfer / Q000235:genetics; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA / Q000662:veterinary*; D012754:Sharks / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial; D012335:RNA, Ribosomal; D012343:RNA, Transfer
keywords: 454 sequencing; Carcharhinus plumbeus; de novo genome assembly; genome annotation; mitochondrial genome