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Wholemount In Situ Hybridization for Astyanax Embryos
Published on: March 2, 2019
The complete mitochondrial genome sequence of Astyanax paranae(Teleostei: characiformes)
Duílio M Z de A Silva1, Ricardo Utsunomia1, Francisco J Ruiz-Ruano2
1Departamento de Morfologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Botucatu, SP, Brazil.
Abstract:
Complete mitochondrial genome of the characiform fish Astyanax paranae was characterized in the present study. The whole mitogenome was 16,707 bp long and consisted of 13 protein-coding genes, 22 tRNAs, 2 rRNAs genes, a control region and origin of light-strand replication. The gene order is similar to those of the congeneric blind cavefish A. mexicanus. The nucleotide content of A. paranae mitogenome was 29.5% for A, 27.6% for T, 15.8% for G, 27.1% for C. Nucleotide identity between A. paranae and A. mexicanus across all the 37 genic regions ranged from 74.9% (ND2) to 90.3% (COX3).
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