Biology Faculty Articles
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-7-2020
Publication Title
Mitochondrial DNA Part B
Keywords
Gray reef shark, mitogenome, Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos
ISSN
2380-2359
Volume
5
Issue/No.
3
First Page
3498
Last Page
3499
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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NSUWorks Citation
Patel, Ela; Andrea Bernard; Marissa Mehlrose; Sydney Harned; Kimberly A. Finnegan; Cristin K. Fitzpatrick; James S. Lea; and Mahmood S. Shivji. 2020. "The complete mitochondrial genome of a gray reef shark, Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos (Carcharhiniformes: Carcharhinidae), from the Western Indian Ocean." Mitochondrial DNA Part B 5, (3): 3498-3499. doi:10.1080/23802359.2020.1827064.
ORCID ID
0000-0001-6684-8723
DOI
10.1080/23802359.2020.1827064
Comments
We thank the Save Our Seas Foundation [Grant 157] for support.