title: Complete mitochondrial DNA sequences of the Victoria tilapia (Oreochromis variabilis) and Redbelly Tilapia (Tilapia zilli): genome characterization and phylogeny analysis.
abstract: The Cichlid fishes have played an important role in evolutionary biology, population studies and aquaculture industry with East African species representing a model suited for studying adaptive radiation and speciation for cichlid genome projects in which closely related genomes are fast emerging presenting questions on phenotype-genotype relations. The complete mitochondrial genomes presented here are for two closely related but eco-morphologically distinct Lake Victoria basin cichlids, Oreochromis variabilis, an endangered native species and Tilapia zilli, an invasive species, both of which are important economic fishes in local areas. The complete mitochondrial genomes determined for O. variabilis and T. zilli are 16 626 and 16,619 bp, respectively. Both the mitogenomes contain 13 protein-coding genes, 22 tRNAs, 2 rRNAs and a non-coding control region, which are typical of vertebrate mitogenomes. Phylogenetic analyses of the two species revealed that though both lie within family Cichlidae, they are remotely related.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Aquaculture , College of Marine Sciences, Ningbo University , Ningbo , Zhejiang , China .|b Directorate of Fisheries, Kisii County Government, Kisii , Kenya , and.
authors.forename: Zachary Omambia
authors.initials: ZO
authors.lastname: Kinaro
authors.affiliation: a Department of Aquaculture , College of Marine Sciences, Ningbo University , Ningbo , Zhejiang , China .|c Collaborative Innovation Center for Zhejiang Marine High-Efficiency and Healthy Aquaculture, Ningbo University , Ningbo , Zhejiang , China.
authors.forename: Liangyi
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Xue
authors.affiliation: a Department of Aquaculture , College of Marine Sciences, Ningbo University , Ningbo , Zhejiang , China .
authors.forename: Josies Ancella
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Volatiana
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001482:Base Composition; D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial; D050259:Genes, Mitochondrial; D059646:Genome Size; D054629:Genome, Mitochondrial; D023281:Genomics; D016366:Open Reading Frames; D010802:Phylogeny; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D017210:Tilapia / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics*; D000073336:Whole Genome Sequencing
chemical_list: D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial
keywords: Cichlidae; Oreochromis variabilis; Tilapia zilli; mitochondrial DNA; phylogeny