title: Mitochondrial genome of Esox flaviae (Southern pike): announcement and comparison with other Esocidae.
abstract: Pikes are fish species belonging to order Esociformes, family Esocidae, genus Esox. Species of the genus Esox are common, large, and economically important for food and fishing activities. Recently, a new species, southern pike E. flaviae, was described for a well-studied area such as Italy, using also two mtDNA markers: cox1 and cytb. A scant number of remnant populations of the species persist in Italy, threatened by habitat loss and degradation and by competition and possible hybridization with E. lucius, massively and recurrently stocked to sustain angling pressure. The availability of new mtDNA markers will possibly contribute to the conservation of the species. Currently, whole mitogenome information for the genus is available only for E. lucius and for E. reichertii. The aim of the present paper is to report novel mitogenomic information for southern pike.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Biodiversity and Molecular Ecology , Research and Innovation Centre , San Michele all'Adige , TN , Italy .
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gandolfi
authors.affiliation: b Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto per lo Studio degli Ecosistemi (CNR-ISE) , Verbania Pallanza (VB) , Italy .
authors.forename: Diego
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Fontaneto
authors.affiliation: c Provincia di Perugia, Ufficio Programmazione e Gestione Fauna Ittica , Perugia , Italy , and.
authors.forename: Mauro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Natali
authors.affiliation: d Dipartimento di Chimica , Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università degli Studi di Perugia , Perugia (PG) , Italy.
authors.forename: Livia
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Lucentini
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D017859:Esocidae / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics*; D054629:Genome, Mitochondrial; D023281:Genomics / Q000379:methods; D010802:Phylogeny; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D000073336:Whole Genome Sequencing
keywords: Esocidae; Esox flaviae; Esox lucius; mitochondrion; mitogenome