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The first mitogenome of the Nile pufferfish Tetraodon lineatus from Lake Turkana in East Africa: new insights into the genus

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A complete mitogenome of T. lineatus from Lake Turkana in the Kenyan part was determined. It had a length of 16 470 bp, including 37 genes as found in teleosts with the typical gene order in these fishes. Mitogenomic comparison and phylogenetic analysis supported not only the morphology-based recognition of the pufferfish specimen from Lake Turkana as the Nile pufferfish, but also the identification of the Chinese specimen recently recorded as T. lineatus and its African source. The mitochondrial genome here amplified for the sample of T. lineatus from Lake Turkana also provides conclusive molecular evidence for the monophyletic nature of Tetraodon s.s., as it serves as a reference genome of this species used to clarify ambiguity in its identification in previous molecular studies.

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Data Availability Statement

The complete mitochondrial genome presented here is deposited in GenBank (accession No. MG913990).

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Acknowledgment

We would like to express thanks to the National Museums of Kenya (NMK) and the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) for facilitated surveys and issuance of research permits. Our thanks are also given to Joseph Gathua, Julius Kioko, and Brian Okwiri of Ichthyology Section, NMK for assistance with field work.

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  1. CAO Liang and SONG Xuelin contributed equally to this work and should be regarded as co-first authors.

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  1. Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430072, China

    Liang Cao, Xuelin Song & E. Zhang

  2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

    Xuelin Song

  3. Sino-Africa Joint Research Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430074, China

    Liang Cao & E. Zhang

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Cao, L., Song, X. & Zhang, E. The first mitogenome of the Nile pufferfish Tetraodon lineatus from Lake Turkana in East Africa: new insights into the genus. J. Ocean. Limnol. 38, 490–502 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00343-019-9050-8

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