Phylogenetic relationships of three rockfish: Sebastes melanops, Sebastes ciliatus and Sebastes variabilis (Scorpaeniformes, Scorpaenidae) based on complete mitochondrial genome sequences

By

Searle, Peter
Kokkonen, Andrea
Campbell, Jillian
Shiozawa, Dennis
Belk, Mark
Evans, R.

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2023-2-28

Original Publication

Biodiversity data journal

Volume

11

Pages

e98167--

Subjects

Mitogenome , phylogenetics , rockfish , Sebastes , Speciation

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia Pensoft Publishers [2013]-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.11.e98167

 

Abstract

We characterise the complete mitochondrial genomes (mitogenomes) of Black rockfish (Sebastes melanops Girard, 1856; n = 1), Dark rockfish (Sebastes ciliatus Tilesius, 1813; n = 2) and Dusky rockfish (Sebastes variabilis Pallas, 1814; n = 2). The lengths of the mitogenomes are 16,405 bp for S. melanops, 16,400 bp for both S. ciliatus and 16,400 and 16,401 bp for S. variabilis. We examine these species’ phylogenetic relationships using 35 previously published rockfish mitogenomes, representing 27 species. We find that S. melanops is sister to a clade consisting of S. rubrivinctus, S. nigrocinctus, S. umbrosus and S. oculatus, whereas S. ciliatus and S. variabilis are sister to a clade consisting of S. norvegicus, S. viviparus, S. mentella and S. fasciatus. We were unable to separate S. ciliatus and S. variabilis using their complete mitogenomes.