title: The complete mitochondrial genome sequence of Colossoma macropomum (Characiformes: Serrasalmidae).
abstract: Colossoma macropomum (Cuvier, 1816) is the largest characin of South America. This species and its congeners mainly feed on zooplankton, insects, snails and decaying plants. In this paper, we sequenced and annotated the complete mitogenome of C. macropomum. The total length is 16,703 bp, and it typically consist of 37 genes, including 13 protein-coding genes, two rRNAs, 22 tRNA, a light-strand replication origin (OL) and a large control region (D-loop). The overall base composition is 29.9%, 24.6%, 29.5% and 15.9% for A, T, C and G, respectively, with a slight bias on AT content (54.6%). All protein-coding genes share the start codon ATG, except for COI, which begins with GTG. Most of them have TAA or TAG as the stop codon, except COII, ND4 use AGA and COI, Cytb use an incomplete stop codon T. This information could provide useful molecular data and contribute to further phylogenetic studies of Characiformes and Serrasalmidae.
authors: a College of Environment and Safety, Taiyuan University of Science and Technology , Taiyuan , China and.|b College of Environment and Resource, Shanxi University , Taiyuan , China.
authors: Yu-Peng
authors: YP
authors: Wu
authors: b College of Environment and Resource, Shanxi University , Taiyuan , China.
authors: Jing-Fang
authors: JF
authors: Xie
authors: a College of Environment and Safety, Taiyuan University of Science and Technology , Taiyuan , China and.
authors: Qiu-Sheng
authors: QS
authors: He
authors: a College of Environment and Safety, Taiyuan University of Science and Technology , Taiyuan , China and.
authors: Jian-Lin
authors: JL
authors: Xie
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001482:Base Composition / Q000235:genetics; D060125:Characiformes / Q000235:genetics*; D018387:Codon, Initiator / Q000235:genetics; D018388:Codon, Terminator / Q000235:genetics; D050259:Genes, Mitochondrial / Q000235:genetics; D054629:Genome, Mitochondrial / Q000235:genetics*; D008928:Mitochondria / Q000235:genetics*; D010802:Phylogeny; D012335:RNA, Ribosomal / Q000235:genetics; D012343:RNA, Transfer / Q000235:genetics; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA / Q000379:methods; D013020:South America; D000073336:Whole Genome Sequencing / Q000379:methods
chemical_list: D018387:Codon, Initiator; D018388:Codon, Terminator; D012335:RNA, Ribosomal; D012343:RNA, Transfer
keywords: Black pacu; mitogenome; phylogeny