The complete mitochondrial genome of the pulmonate snail Melampus sincaporensis (Gastropoda: ellobiidae) from South Korea

Hyejeong Yu; Cho Rong Shin; Gyeongmin Kim; Bia Park; Eun Hwa Choi; Ui Wook Hwang

doi:10.1080/23802359.2024.2429645

The complete mitochondrial genome of the pulmonate snail Melampus sincaporensis (Gastropoda: ellobiidae) from South Korea

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2024 Nov 15;9(11):1549-1553. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2024.2429645. eCollection 2024.

Authors

Hyejeong Yu¹, Cho Rong Shin^{1

2}, Gyeongmin Kim³, Bia Park¹, Eun Hwa Choi^{1

4}, Ui Wook Hwang^{1

2

4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biology Education, Teachers College and Institute for Phylogenomics and Evolution, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea.
² Department of Biomedical Convergence Science and Technology, School of Industrial Technology Advances, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea.
³ School of Life Sciences, Graduate School, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea.
⁴ Phylomics Inc, Daegu, South Korea.
⁵ Institute for Korean Herb-Bio Convergence Promotion, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea.

Abstract

The pulmonate snail Melampus sincaporensis L. Pfeiffer, 1855 (Gastropoda: Ellobiidae) lives in extreme environments such as salt marshes with limited oxygen. Here, we characterized the complete mitochondrial genome of M. sincaporensis from South Korea. It is 14,962 bp in length and includes 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs), two genes, 21 tRNA genes lacking one tRNA-Ser, and two A + T rich regions. Among these 36 genes, 24 were encoded on the heavy strand and 12 on the light strand. A maximum likelihood tree constructed using nucleotide sequences of the 13 PCGs did not support the monophyly of Ellobiidae. This study could provide useful information for exploring phylogenetic relationships among ellobiids and their related species.

Keywords: Ellobiidae; Melampus sincaporensis; mitochondrial genome; panpulmonata.

Grants and funding

This work was supported partly by a grant to UWH from the National Institute of Biological Resources (NIBR) funded by the Ministry of Environment (MOE), South Korea (NIBR202231206), and partly by a grant to EHC from the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT (2021R1C1C2012882).