TY - JOUR T1 - Complete mitochondrial genome of <em>Muricea crassa</em> and <em>Muricea purpurea</em> (Anthozoa: Octocorallia) from the eastern tropical Pacific JF - bioRxiv DO - 10.1101/042945 SP - 042945 AU - Angelo Poliseno AU - Odalisca Breedy AU - Michael Eitel AU - Gert Wöerheide AU - Hector M. Guzman AU - Stefan Krebs AU - Helmuth Blum AU - Sergio Vargas Y1 - 2016/01/01 UR - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/03/24/042945.abstract N2 - We sequenced the complete mitogenomes of two eastern tropical Pacific gorgonians, Muricea crassa and Muricea purpurea, using NGS technologies. The assembled mitogenomes of M. crassa and M. purpurea were 19,586 bp and 19,358 bp in length, with a GC-content ranging from 36.0% to 36.1%, respectively. The two mitogenomes had the same gene arrangement consisting of 14 protein-coding genes, two rRNAs and one tRNA. Mitogenome identity was 98.5%. The intergenic regions between COB and NAD6 and between NAD5 and NAD4 were polymorphic in length with a high level of nucleotide diversity. Based on a concatenated dataset of 14 mitochondrial protein-coding genes we inferred the phylogeny of 26 octocoral species. ER -