1. The complete mitochondrial genome of a gray reef shark, Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos (Carcharhiniformes: Carcharhinidae), from the Western Indian Ocean
- Author
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Kimberly A. Finnegan, Mahmood S. Shivji, Cristín K. Fitzpatrick, Sydney P Harned, Ela Patel, Andrea M. Bernard, James S. E. Lea, and Marissa Mehlrose
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0106 biological sciences ,0301 basic medicine ,Mitochondrial DNA ,Gray reef shark ,Reef shark ,Population ,Zoology ,010603 evolutionary biology ,01 natural sciences ,03 medical and health sciences ,biology.animal ,Carcharhiniformes ,Genetics ,education ,Molecular Biology ,Mitogenome Announcement ,geography ,education.field_of_study ,geography.geographical_feature_category ,biology ,mitogenome ,fungi ,Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos ,Vertebrate ,Coral reef ,Ribosomal RNA ,biology.organism_classification ,030104 developmental biology ,human activities ,geographic locations ,Research Article - Abstract
We present the mitochondrial genome sequence of a gray reef shark, Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos (Bleeker 1856), a coral reef associated species. This is the first mitogenome for this species from the western Indian Ocean. The mitogenome is 16,705 bp in length, has 13 protein-coding genes, 22 tRNA genes, 2 rRNA genes and a non-coding control region, and demonstrates a gene arrangement congruent with other shark and most vertebrate species. This mitogenome provides a genomic resource for assisting with population, evolutionary and conservation studies for the gray reef shark, which is increasingly under threat from fisheries.
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- 2020