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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Title
The complete mitochondrial genome of a gray reef shark, Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos (Carcharhiniformes: Carcharhinidae), from the Western Indian Ocean
Author
Patel, Ela 1 ; Bernard, Andrea M 2 ; Mehlrose, Marissa 2 ; Harned, Sydney 2 ; Finnegan, Kimberly A 2 ; Fitzpatrick, Cristín K 3 ; Lea, James S 4 ; Shivji, Mahmood S 2 

 Save Our Seas Foundation Shark Research Center, Nova Southeastern University, Florida, USA; Trinity Preparatory School, Florida, USA 
 Save Our Seas Foundation Shark Research Center, Nova Southeastern University, Florida, USA 
 State Fisheries Genomics Lab, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Oregon State University, Oregon, USA 
 Save Our Seas Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland; Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK 
Pages
3498-3499
Publication year
2020
Publication date
Sep 2020
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd.
e-ISSN
23802359
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2522514317
Copyright
© 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.