Montipora mollis Raw sequence reads
Montipora mollis (Bernard, 1897) is a reef-building scleractinian coral belonging to the family Acroporidae. Its mitochondrial genome comprises 13 protein-coding genes, 2 tRNA genes, and 2 rRNA genes, all exhibiting significant AT bias and strand-specific distribution.A phylogeny reconstructed from mitogenome sequences of 15 Acropora species and one outgroup (Pocillopora damicornis) reveals that M. mollis is closely related to M. efflorescens. The complete mitogenome reported here provides a useful molecular resource for comparative mitogenomics and phylogenetic studies of Acroporidae.