The complete mitochondrial genome of the barcheek trevally, Carangoides plagiotaenia Bleeker, 1857 from Beqa Lagoon in Fiji

Abstract

The complete mitochondrial genome of the Barcheek trevally, Carangoides plagiotaenia Bleeker, 1857 from Beqa lagoon, Fiji Islands, was determined by high-throughput sequencing (HTS). Its mitogenome (16,551 bp) contained the typical 37 genes, including 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs), 2 ribosomal RNAs, 22 tRNAs, along with two non-coding regions: control region (D-loop) and the origin of light-strand replication (OL). In its mitogenome, one unusual start codon (GTG) was identified in COI and incomplete stop codons (TA-/T–) were predicted in seven PCGs including ND2, COII, ATP6, COIII, ND3, ND4 and CytB. The phylogenetic tree revealed that C. plagiotaenia is sister to C. bajad with 88.75% nucleotide identity in 13 PCGs and 90.49% in the complete mitogenomes.

Keywords

• carangidae
• carangoides plagiotaenia
• fiji
• mitochondrial genome
• phylogenetic tree