title: FMiR: A Curated Resource of Mitochondrial DNA Information for Fish.
abstract: Mitochondrial genome sequences have been widely used for evolutionary and phylogenetic studies. Among vertebrates, fish are an important, diverse group, and their mitogenome sequences are growing rapidly in public repositories. To facilitate mitochondrial genome analysis and to explore the valuable genetic information, we developed the Fish Mitogenome Resource (FMiR) database to provide a workbench for mitogenome annotation, species identification and microsatellite marker mining. The microsatellites are also known as simple sequence repeats (SSRs) and used as molecular markers in studies on population genetics, gene duplication and marker assisted selection. Here, easy-to-use tools have been implemented for mining SSRs and for designing primers to identify species/habitat specific markers. In addition, FMiR can analyze complete or partial mitochondrial genome sequence to identify species and to deduce relational distances among sequences across species. The database presently contains curated mitochondrial genomes from 1302 fish species belonging to 297 families and 47 orders reported from saltwater and freshwater ecosystems. In addition, the database covers information on fish species such as conservation status, ecosystem, family, distribution and occurrence downloaded from the FishBase and IUCN Red List databases. Those fish information have been used to browse mitogenome information for the species belonging to a particular category. The database is scalable in terms of content and inclusion of other analytical modules. The FMiR is running under Linux operating platform on high performance server accessible at URL http://mail.nbfgr.res.in/fmir.
authors: Division of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources, Lucknow-226002, India.
authors: Naresh Sahebrao
authors: NS
authors: Nagpure
authors: Division of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources, Lucknow-226002, India.
authors: Iliyas
authors: I
authors: Rashid
authors: Division of Fish Taxonomy and Resources, National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources, Lucknow-226002, India.
authors: Ajey Kumar
authors: AK
authors: Pathak
authors: Division of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources, Lucknow-226002, India.
authors: Mahender
authors: M
authors: Singh
authors: Division of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources, Lucknow-226002, India.
authors: Rameshwar
authors: R
authors: Pati
authors: Division of Fish Taxonomy and Resources, National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources, Lucknow-226002, India.
authors: Shri Prakash
authors: SP
authors: Singh
authors: Division of Fish Taxonomy and Resources, National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources, Lucknow-226002, India.
authors: Uttam Kumar
authors: UK
authors: Sarkar
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D030561:Databases, Nucleic Acid; D005399:Fishes / Q000235:genetics*; D054629:Genome, Mitochondrial; D018895:Microsatellite Repeats; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data