1. Complete mitochondrial genome of the Siamese fighting fish (Betta splendens)
- Author
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Gui-Bao Xiao, Ying-Nan Song, and Jiong-Tang Li
- Subjects
Fish Proteins ,0301 basic medicine ,Mitochondrial DNA ,Zoology ,Biology ,Open Reading Frames ,03 medical and health sciences ,RNA, Transfer ,Tandem repeat ,Genus ,Phylogenetics ,Genetics ,Animals ,Molecular Biology ,Phylogeny ,Base Composition ,Phylogenetic tree ,Fishes ,biology.organism_classification ,Biological Evolution ,030104 developmental biology ,Macropodus ,RNA, Ribosomal ,Tandem Repeat Sequences ,Genome, Mitochondrial ,Betta splendens - Abstract
The Siamese fighting fish (Betta splendens) is one of the popular aquarium fish. Serious attentions have been paid to the biodiversity of the fish. The mitochondrial genome of the Siamese fighting fish is reported to be 17 099 bp and includes 37 genes. The gene organization is similar to other fish mitogenomes. The control region is AT-rich and includes three tandem repeats. Phylogenetic analysis reveals that the fish is close to fish in the Macropodus genus. This mitogenome will assist in studying the mitochondrial variations and population structure in this fish and examine the evolutionary relationship among fish in the Osphronemidae family.
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- 2015