Journal of Tropical Oceanography ›› 2023, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (2): 54-63.doi: 10.11978/2022083CSTR: 32234.14.2022083

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Mitogenome characteristics and phylogenetic analysis of Siphonosoma australe in Hainan

HUANG Peixian1,2(), YAO Xuemei1,2(), YU Qiaochi1,2, ZHANG Jiayu1,2   

  1. 1. State Key Laboratory of Marine Resource Utilization in South China Sea, Hainan University, Haikou 570228, China
    2. College of Ocean, Hainan University, Haikou 570228, China
  • Received:2022-04-19 Revised:2022-07-22 Online:2023-03-10 Published:2022-07-27
  • Contact: YAO Xuemei. email: yaoxuemei72@163.com
  • Supported by:
    Hainan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China(319MS013)

Abstract:

Siphonosoma australe is a local fishery resource in Hainan, which belongs to Siphonosoma. The taxonomic status of the genus in the phylum Sipuncula has been highly controversial. In this study, the mitogenome of S. australe in the Wenchang coast of Hainan was determined by high-throughput sequencing, and compared with the mitochondrial genomes collected from GenBank, characteristics of mitogenome sequence was analyzed, furthermore, the evolutionary position of the genus Siphonosoma in the phylum of Sipuncula was explored. The results show that the mitogenome of S. australe has 16483 base pairs and encodes a set of 38 genes (13 protein-coding, 23 transfer RNAs, and 2 ribosomal RNAs). The mitochondrial genome shows AT bias, and the content of nucleotides A+T is 65.87%. By the analysis of the relative synonymous codon usage (RSCU), the mitochondrial protein-coding genes of S. australe have obvious preference to the codons ending with A and U. The number of amino acids of mitochondrial protein coding genes (COX1, COX3 and ND5) of S. australe is quite different from that of other species. Compared with the mitochondrial genomes of sipunculans from GenBank, it was found that among the major coding genes of sipunculans, the proportions of variable sites in COX1, COX2 and CYTB genes are low, while the proportions of variable sites in ND2, ND4L and ND6 genes are high, and the highest proportion of variable sites in ATP8 gene is 83.33%. Based on the DNA sequences of sipunculan mitogenomes, the phylogenetic tree constructed using the methods of NJ (neighbor-joining), ML (maximum likelihood) and BI (Bayesian inference) showed that the genus Siphonosoma, as an independent clade, is between the genera of Phascolosoma and Sipunculus, even close to the genus of Phascolosoma instead far from the genus of Sipunculus. This result is inconsistent with the previously traditional classification based on morphological analyses. Taxonomically, Siphonosoma mixes the morphological characteristics of Phascolosoma and Sipunculus. The phylogenetic tree constructed with mitochondrial genome sequences could truly reflect the unique phylogenetic status of Siphonosoma. The mitogenome data of S. australe provides a theoretical basis for explaining the evolutionary relationship of the Siphonosoma in the phylum Sipuncula, and are beneficial to the protection and development of genetic resource of S. australe.

Key words: Siphonosoma australe, Hainan, mitogenome, phylogeny