Journal of Tropical Oceanography ›› 2024, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (6): 145-159.doi: 10.11978/2023196CSTR: 32234.14.2023196

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The mitochondrial genomic characteristics and phylogenetic relationship analysis of Pisodonophis cancrivorus (Anguilliformes, Ophichthidae)

YANG Lan(), ZHAO Yao, LIU Yuping, YANG Tianyan()   

  1. School of Fisheries, Zhejiang Ocean University, Zhoushan 316022, China
  • Received:2023-12-15 Revised:2024-02-11 Online:2024-11-10 Published:2024-12-05
  • Contact: YANG Tianyan
  • Supported by:
    Province Key Research and Development Program of Zhejiang(2021C2047); Technology Planning Project of Zhoushan(2022C41022); National Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program for College Students(202310340056); Science and Technology Innovation Project of College Students in Zhejiang Province(2023R411005); Innovation Project of College Students in Zhejiang Ocean University(2023-A-025)

Abstract:

Pisodonophis cancrivorus is an important fish species in the southeast coast of China. In this study, the complete mitochondrial genome of P. cancrivorus was obtained by high-throughput sequencing technique, as well as the structural characteristics and phylogenetic relationships were also analyzed. The total length of the complete mitochondrial DNA is 17650bp, and the base compositions are A (31.72%), G (15.58%), T (26.26%) and C (26.44%), respectively, showing an obvious anti-G bias and A+T preference. Similar to the published mitogenomes of Ophichthidae species, some genes have undergone a tandem duplication-random loss (TDRL) event due to the natural selection, causing the ND6 gene and its conjoint tRNA-Glu(E) to be translocated between tRNA-Thr(T) and tRNA-Pro(P). Besides, another D-loop region with length of 966bp is located upstream of the ND6 gene, and these two D-loop regions show a trend of independent evolution. There are two start codons (ATG, GTG) and four stop codons (TAG, TAA, TA-, T--) among the 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs), and only COI gene is initiated with GTG. In the total of 3 824 encoded amino acids, the content of Leu is the highest, while the content of Cys is the lowest. There are 17 DNA mismatches in the secondary structures of 22 tRNAs. All tRNAs can form the clover-leaf structures, excepting tRNA-SerAGY(S) because of lacking the DHU arm. The origin of L-strand replication region (OL) with the length of 21bp is situated in the “WANCY” region, and the conserved motif 3'-GGCGG-5' is detected in the 3' end of its hairpin secondary structure. The sequences of 12 PCGs (without ND6) are concatenated by removing stop codons, and the interspecific genetic distances of 17 Ophichthidae fishes are calculated to be 0.128-0.297 based on the Kimura two-parameter (K2P) model. The phylogenetic trees constructed by the maximum likelihood (ML) and Bayesian inference (BI) methods show a complex evolutionary relationship of Ophichthidae fishes. P. cancrivorus is located at the base of the phylogenetic tree and closely related to Ophichthus brevicaudatus and O. evermanni, suggesting that it may diverge later than other snake eels.

Key words: Pisodonophis cancrivorus, mitochondrial genome, structure characteristics, sequence analysis, phylogeny

CLC Number: 

  • S917.4