Complete mitochondrial genome of Antarctic krill Euphausia superba (Eucarida: Euphausiacea)

• Published in: Mitochondrial DNA Part B
• Main Authors: Ming Zhao, Mengdi Zhao, Chunyan Ma, Chunlei Feng, Luming Wang, Lingbo Ma
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2017
• Subjects: euphausia superba; mitochondrial genome; control region; nd2; molecular maker; Genetics; QH426-470; Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctic Krill; Euphausia superba
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1080/23802359.2017.1413306; https://doaj.org/article/de7b0b8c9b444166b8047db78d2a7743

Antarctic krill Euphausia superba is a very important species in Antarctic ecosystem. The mitochondrial genome of E. superba was completed with 16,591 bp in length, gene arrangement and order was the same as previous studies. The overall A + T content is 68.91% and the control region A + T content is 78.17%. Alignment with other two partial mitochondrial genome revealed that ND2 region possessed many unusual variation sites. The phylogenetic tree showed that E. superba clustered with other two species of Euphausiacea. This study filled in the gap of the krill mitogenome and suggested putative markers for population study.