Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources (Aug 2021)

Sequence and phylogenetic analysis of the mitochondrial genome for the East Asian common octopus, Octopus sinensis (Octopodidae: Octopoda)

  • Fenghui Li,
  • Yuyan Liu,
  • Bo Qin,
  • Li Bian,
  • Jianlong Ge,
  • Qing Chang,
  • Hui Liu,
  • Siqing Chen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/23802359.2021.1944360
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6, no. 8
pp. 2120 – 2122

Abstract

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The complete mitochondrial genome of the East Asian common octopus (Octopus sinensis) was determined and analyzed in this work. The circular mitogenome of O. sinensis is 15,737 bp in length with 21.53% GC content, which contains two ribosomal RNA genes (rRNAs), 22 transfer RNA genes (tRNAs), 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs) and a non-coding region (D-loop). The analysis of the SNPs revealed 4 conservative SNPs for COI gene of O. sinensis compared with Octopus vulgaris. Phylogenetic analysis suggested that O. sinensis is closely related to O. vulgaris. This sequence data would play an important role in the investigation of phylogenetic relationship and taxonomy of the class Cephalopoda.

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