1. Complete mitochondrial genome of the giant ramshorn snail Marisa cornuarietis (Gastropoda: Ampullariidae).
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Wang, Mingling and Qiu, Jian-Wen
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MARISA cornuarietis , *GASTROPODA , *SNAILS , *MITOCHONDRIAL DNA , *TRANSFER RNA , *RIBOSOMAL RNA - Abstract
We report the complete mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) of the giant ramshorn snailMarisa cornuarietis, a biocontrol agent of freshwater weeds and snail vectors of schistosomes. The mitogenome is 15,923 bp in length, encoding 13 protein-coding genes, 22 transfer RNAs and 2 ribosomal RNAs. The mitogenome is A+T biased (70.0%), with 28.9% A, 41.1% T, 16.7% G, and 13.3% C. A comparison withPomacea canaliculata, the other member in the same family (Ampullariidae) with a sequenced mitogenome, shows that the two species have an identical gene order, but their intergenic regions vary substantially in sequence length. The mitogenome data can be used to understand the population genetics ofM. cornuarietis, and resolve the phylogenetic relationship of various genera in Ampullariidae. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2016
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