title: Description of the mitochondrial genome of the tree coral Dendrophyllia arbuscula (Anthozoa, Scleractinia).
abstract: Dendrophylliidae is one of the few monophyletic families within the Scleractinia that embraces zooxanthellate and azooxanthellate species represented by both solitary and colonial forms. Among the exclusively azooxanthellate genera, Dendrophyllia is reported worldwide from 1 to 1200 m deep. To date, although three complete mitochondrial (mt) genomes from representatives of the family are available, only that from Turbinaria peltata has been formally published. Here we describe the complete nucleotide sequence of the mt genome from Dendrophyllia arbuscula that is 19 069 bp in length and comprises two rDNAs, two tRNAs, and 13 protein-coding genes arranged in the canonical scleractinian mt gene order. No genes overlap, resulting in the presence of 18 intergenic spacers and one of the longest scleractinian mt genome sequenced to date.
authors.affiliation: a Programa de Pós graduação em Sistemas Costeiros e Oceânicos, Centro de Estudos do Mar (CEM), Universidade Federal do Paraná, Pontal do Paraná , Paraná , Brazil .
authors.forename: Bruna Louise Pereira
authors.initials: BL
authors.lastname: Luz
authors.affiliation: b Programa de Pós graduação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro , Rio de Janeiro , Brazil .
authors.forename: Kátia Cristina Cruz
authors.initials: KC
authors.lastname: Capel
authors.affiliation: c Faculdade de Ciências e Letras de Assis , UNESP - Universidade Estadual Paulista , Assis , São Paulo , Brazil .
authors.forename: Sérgio Nascimento
authors.initials: SN
authors.lastname: Stampar
authors.affiliation: a Programa de Pós graduação em Sistemas Costeiros e Oceânicos, Centro de Estudos do Mar (CEM), Universidade Federal do Paraná, Pontal do Paraná , Paraná , Brazil .|d Departamento de Ciências do Mar , Universidade Federal de São Paulo , Campus Baixada Santista , Santos , São Paulo , Brazil , and.|e Centro de Biologia Marinha (CEBIMar), Universidade de São Paulo , São Sebastião , São Paulo , Brazil.
authors.forename: Marcelo Visentini
authors.initials: MV
authors.lastname: Kitahara
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D037421:Anthozoa / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics*; D001482:Base Composition; D050259:Genes, Mitochondrial; D059646:Genome Size; D054629:Genome, Mitochondrial; D023281:Genomics / Q000379:methods; D010802:Phylogeny
keywords: Dendrophyllia arbuscula; Scleractinia; mitochondrial genome