TY - JOUR
T1 - The complete mitochondrial genome of Echiniscus testudo (Heterotardigrada: Echiniscidae)
AU - Arakawa, Kazuharu
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), No. 17H03620, in part by research funds from the Yamagata Prefectural Government and Tsuruoka City, Japan.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2018/7/3
Y1 - 2018/7/3
N2 - The complete mitchondrial genome of Echiniscus testudo, a cosmopolitan heterotardigrade collected in Japan, has been sequenced using a single molecule real-time (SMRT) sequencing long read after whole genome amplification from a single individual. The genome has a total length of 15,817 bp, consisting of 13 protein-coding genes, 20 tRNA, 2 rRNA genes, and an AT-rich control region. The nucleotide composition was extremely AT-rich, with 78.41% AT. Being in a different class of the phylum Tardigrada, there is a large sequence divergence from the previously reported mitochondrial genome of the eutardigrade Ramazzottius varieornatus, but the gene order of protein-coding genes are mostly conserved. This is the first report of a complete mitochondrial genome of a heterotardigrade.
AB - The complete mitchondrial genome of Echiniscus testudo, a cosmopolitan heterotardigrade collected in Japan, has been sequenced using a single molecule real-time (SMRT) sequencing long read after whole genome amplification from a single individual. The genome has a total length of 15,817 bp, consisting of 13 protein-coding genes, 20 tRNA, 2 rRNA genes, and an AT-rich control region. The nucleotide composition was extremely AT-rich, with 78.41% AT. Being in a different class of the phylum Tardigrada, there is a large sequence divergence from the previously reported mitochondrial genome of the eutardigrade Ramazzottius varieornatus, but the gene order of protein-coding genes are mostly conserved. This is the first report of a complete mitochondrial genome of a heterotardigrade.
KW - Echiniscus testudo
KW - Mitochondrial genome
KW - PacBio sequencing
KW - tardigrade
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U2 - 10.1080/23802359.2018.1495118
DO - 10.1080/23802359.2018.1495118
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85050961180
SN - 2380-2359
VL - 3
SP - 810
EP - 811
JO - Mitochondrial DNA Part B: Resources
JF - Mitochondrial DNA Part B: Resources
IS - 2
ER -