Complete mitogenome sequences of the pacific red snapper (Lutjanus peru) and the spotted rose snapper (Lutjanus
Natalia Juliana Bayona-Vásquez1, Cristóbal Alejandro Hernández-Álvarez1, Travis Glenn2
1a Unidad Académica de Ecología y Biodiversidad Acuática, Laboratorio De Genética De Organismos Acuáticos , Instituto De Ciencias Del Mar Y Limnología, Circuito Exterior S/N, Ciudad Universitaria , México DF , Mexico.
Abstract:
The structure of the mitochondrial genome for the Pacific red snapper, Lutjanus peru, and the spotted rose snapper, Lutjanus gutattus, of specimens collected in the eastern Pacific is similar to the reported for other teleosts and shares the same configuration with other members of the family Lutjanidae. It has a total length of 16 502 and 16 508 base pairs (bp) for Lutjanus peru and L. gutattus, respectively; on average the base composition was A (27.9%), T (24.8%) C (30.9%), and G (16.4%), containing 13 protein-coding genes, 2 rRNA genes, and 22 tRNA genes; and the leucine (Leu) tRNA is duplicated.


