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Whole Mitochondrial Genomes Applied to Phylogenetics of Aquatic Animals
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Whole Mitochondrial Genomes Applied to Phylogenetics of Aquatic Animals

A special issue of Fishes (ISSN 2410-3888). This special issue belongs to the section "Taxonomy, Evolution, and Biogeography".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2024 | Viewed by 345

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Prof. Dr. Joseph Quattro

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Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29045, USA
Interests: conservation genetics; evolution; fishes; phylogenetics; population genetics
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Recent technological advances have facilitated the acquisition of mitochondrial genomes and their use to answer questions regarding the phylogenetic relationships of aquatic organisms. We seek manuscripts that utilize mitochondrial genomes to help support or refute phylogenetic hypotheses that require wider coverage than a handful of targeted loci might provide. The focus of these manuscripts can be methodological (e.g., data acquisition and phylogenetic analyses) or, more narrowly, applications of these sorts of data to interesting questions in aquatic biology. We ask that focused manuscripts outline a clear hypothesis supporting the rationale for the study, rather than the simple accumulation of mitochondrial genomes without adequate justification. 

Prof. Dr. Joseph Quattro
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • phylogenetic relationship
  • mitochondrial genomes
  • systematics
  • aquatic organisms

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Mitogenome, Poly(A) Mitotranscriptome, and Molecular Phylogeny of Rasbora rasbora (Family Danionidae; Subfamily Rasborinae)
by Stanislava Wolf Profant, Tor Erik Jørgensen, Eirik Austad, Igor Babiak and Steinar Daae Johansen
Fishes 2024, 9(8), 317; https://doi.org/10.3390/fishes9080317 (registering DOI) - 9 Aug 2024
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The subfamily Rasborinae is a species-rich group of freshwater fish related to zebrafish; however, its taxonomy remains unclear. We present the complete mitogenome and corresponding polyadenylated mitotranscriptome of Rasbora rasbora (Hamilton 1822) based on long-read and high-coverage Oxford Nanopore Technology sequencing. The mitogenome [...] Read more.
The subfamily Rasborinae is a species-rich group of freshwater fish related to zebrafish; however, its taxonomy remains unclear. We present the complete mitogenome and corresponding polyadenylated mitotranscriptome of Rasbora rasbora (Hamilton 1822) based on long-read and high-coverage Oxford Nanopore Technology sequencing. The mitogenome size, gene content, and gene organization correspond to the typical vertebrate composition, and the mitogenome generates 10 polyadenylated mRNAs. Two alternative polyadenylation sites of ND5 mRNA were detected, one with a 596 nt 3′untranslated region corresponding to the antisense ND6 gene. Polyadenylation also generates seven of the mRNA UAA stop codons. Complete mitogenome sequences, excluding the control region, were carefully aligned for RNA-coding and protein-coding features using 54 available species of the subfamily Rasborinae. The phylogenetic analyses based on maximum likelihood, Bayesian inference, and neighbor-joining tree building methods confirm the transfer of R. rasbora into the Sumatrana species group. The overall phylogeny of the subfamily Rasborinae supports with high confidence some previously observed changes within this subfamily, as well as contradicts some conclusions set by previous studies. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Whole Mitochondrial Genomes Applied to Phylogenetics of Aquatic Animals)
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