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Published on: May 20, 2018
Complete mitochondrial genome of Salminus brasiliensis (Characiformes, Characidae)
Pedro Ferreira Pinto Brandão-Dias1, Anderson Oliveira do Carmo1, Ana Paula Vimieiro Martins1
1a Departamento de Biologia Geral , Instituto de Ciências Biológicas - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Avenida Presidente Antônio Carlos , Pampulha , Belo Horizonte - MG , Brasil and.
Abstract:
We report the complete mitochondrial genome of the fish Salminus brasiliensis, popularly known as dourado. It is a circular, 17,721 bp long DNA molecule, containing 13 protein-coding genes, 2 rRNA genes, 22 tRNA genes and a non-coding Control Region of 2128 bp, a relatively large molecule when compared to other closely related fishes. All protein-coding genes are on the heavy strand, except for Nd6, and all have ATG as the start codon, except for Cox1 gene which has a GTG start codon. Seven protein-coding genes have incomplete stop codons (Nd2, Cox2, Atp6, Nd4, and Cytb have T- -, and Cox3 and Nd3 have TA-). TAG is the stop codon for Nd6 and AGG is the stop codon for Cox1.
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