Complete linear mitochondrial genomes for Cephea cephea and Mastigias albipunctata (Scyphozoa: Rhizostomeae), with an analysis of phylogenetic relationships

Kei Chloe Tan; Cheryl Lewis Ames; Allen G Collins

doi:10.1080/23802359.2024.2429644

Complete linear mitochondrial genomes for Cephea cephea and Mastigias albipunctata (Scyphozoa: Rhizostomeae), with an analysis of phylogenetic relationships

Mitochondrial DNA B Resour. 2024 Nov 14;9(11):1544-1548. doi: 10.1080/23802359.2024.2429644. eCollection 2024.

Authors

Kei Chloe Tan¹, Cheryl Lewis Ames¹, Allen G Collins^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences & WPI-Advanced Institute for Marine Ecosystem Change, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
² National Systematics Laboratory; Office of Science and Technology, NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, Washington, DC, USA.
³ Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), Washington, DC, USA.

Abstract

Jellyfishes of the order Rhizostomeae include ecologically and economically important species predisposed to forming massive aggregations. This study reports the first complete mitochondrial genome of two rhizostomes: Cephea cephea (Forskål, 1775) and Mastigias albipunctata Stiasny, 1920. The linear mitochondrial genomes are 16,667bp and 16,707bp in length and 65.5% and 68.4% AT respectively; each comprises 15 protein-coding genes (PCGs; dpo, orf314, cox1-3, nd1-6, nd4L, atp6, atp8 and cytB), two ribosomal RNAs (16S and 12S rRNA), and two tRNAs (trnM and trnW). The phylogenetic analysis reveals strong support for monophyly of the suborder Kolpophorae and Cephea cephea of the infraorder Actinomyaria as sister to Krykomyaria which includes Mastigias.

Keywords: Jellyfishes; Kolpophorae; Krykomyaria; linear mitochondrial genomes; phylogeny.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the US National Science Foundation, Division Of Integrative Organismal Systems Awards 2227068-70; World Premier International Research Center Initiative (WPI) AIMEC, MEXT, Japan.