Mitochondrial genome of Leocrates chinensis Kinberg, 1866 (Annelida: Hesionidae)

Xiaolong Li; Deyuan Yang; Jian-Wen Qiu; Penglong Liu; Dehao Meng; Hongmei Zhu; Limei Guo; Site Luo; Zhi Wang; Caihuan Ke

doi:10.1080/23802359.2023.2167480

Mitochondrial genome of Leocrates chinensis Kinberg, 1866 (Annelida: Hesionidae)

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2023 Jan 25;8(1):172-176. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2023.2167480. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Xiaolong Li¹, Deyuan Yang^{2

3}, Jian-Wen Qiu^{4

5}, Penglong Liu¹, Dehao Meng¹, Hongmei Zhu¹, Limei Guo¹, Site Luo³, Zhi Wang¹, Caihuan Ke¹

Affiliations

¹ State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China.
² National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan, China.
³ College of the Environment and Ecology, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China.
⁴ Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, China.
⁵ Department of Biology, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China.

Abstract

We report the complete mitochondrial genome of Leocrates chinensis Kinberg, 1866 - the type species of the genus. It is 15061 bp long, and contains 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs), 22 tRNA genes (tRNAs), and 2 rRNA genes (rRNAs), and 1 putative control region. Phylogenetic analysis indicated that L. chinensis was placed as sister to Sirsoe methanicola (BS = 100) of the same family Hesionidae.

Keywords: China seas; Leocrates chinensis; mitogenome; phylogenetic analysis.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation under Grant [2021M691866], the Undergraduate Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Programs at Xiamen University under Grant [202110384077], the Lantau Conservation Fund under Grant [RE-2020-22], and the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD), The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region under Service contract number [AFCD/SQ/159/9].