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Novel Sequence Discovery by Subtractive Genomics
Published on: January 25, 2019
Complete mitochondrial genome sequence of Brycon orbignyanus (Characiformes, Bryconidae)
Flávia de Faria Siqueira1,2, Anderson Oliveira do Carmo1, Juliana da Silva Martins Pimentel1
1a Departamento de Biologia Geral , Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais , Belo Horizonte , Brasil and.
Abstract:
We report the whole mitochondrial genome of the Brycon orbignyanus, commonly known as the piracanjuba. The mitogenome was determined to be a circular, 16,800 bp DNA molecule, containing 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs), 2 rRNA genes, 22 tRNA genes and one 1160 bp noncoding control region. Twelve of the PCGs were located on the heavy strand, and one PCG (Nd6) was located on the light strand. The most common start codon was ATG; however, the Cox1 gene displayed the GTG start codon. Seven PCGs had incomplete stop codons: specifically, Cox2, Cox3, Nd3, Nd4, and Cytb contained the T- - codon, and Nd2 and Atp6 contained the TA- codon. The Cox1 gene contained the AGG stop codon.
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