Complementing aculiferan mitogenomics: comparative characterization of mitochondrial genomes of Solenogastres (Mollusca, Aplacophora).

ABSTRACT:

Background

With the advances in high-throughput sequencing and bioinformatic pipelines, mitochondrial genomes have become increasingly popular for phylogenetic analyses across different clades of invertebrates. Despite the vast rise in available mitogenomic datasets of molluscs, one class of aplacophoran molluscs - Solenogastres (or Neomeniomorpha) - is still neglected.

Results

Here, we present six new mitochondrial genomes from five families of Solenogastres (Amphimeniidae, Gymnomeniidae, Proneomeniidae, Pruvotinidae, Simrothiellidae), including the first complete mitogenomes, thereby now representing three of the four traditional orders. Solenogaster mitogenomes are variable in size (ranging from approximately 15,000 bp to over 17,000 bp). The gene order of the 13 protein

SUBMITTER: Bergmeier FS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11488289 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature